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Sehenswürdigkeit: der, die or das?

dieSehenswürdigkeit

Attraction

feminin · feminineTravelLevel: Advanced

Short answer: Sehenswürdigkeit takes the article die (die Sehenswürdigkeit). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “attraction” in English.

Sehenswürdigkeit: word facts

Article
die
Gender
feminin (feminine)
English
Attraction
Topic
Travel
Yupo level
Advanced

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Why does Sehenswürdigkeit take die?

Nouns ending in -keit usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 23 of 23 such words take die (100%).

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Sehenswürdigkeit in the accusative and dative

Singular, with the definite article

Nominativsubject: who? what?die Sehenswürdigkeit
Akkusativdirect object: whom? what?die Sehenswürdigkeit
Dativindirect object: to whom?der Sehenswürdigkeit

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