Schwägerin: der, die or das?
dieSchwägerin
Sister-in-law
Short answer: Schwägerin takes the article die (die Schwägerin). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “sister-in-law” in English.
Schwägerin: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Sister-in-law
- Topic
- Relationships and community
- Yupo level
- Intermediate
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Why does Schwägerin take die?
Nouns ending in -erin (female forms of people and jobs) usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 42 of 42 such words take die (100%).
See the article rules →Schwägerin in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | die Schwägerin |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | die Schwägerin |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | der Schwägerin |
