Sicherheit: der, die or das?
dieSicherheit
Security
Short answer: Sicherheit takes the article die (die Sicherheit). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “security” in English.
Sicherheit: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Security
- Topic
- Relationships and community
- Yupo level
- Intermediate
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Why does Sicherheit take die?
Nouns ending in -heit usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 17 of 17 such words take die (100%).
See the article rules →Sicherheit in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | die Sicherheit |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | die Sicherheit |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | der Sicherheit |
