Sozialarbeiterin: der, die or das?
dieSozialarbeiterin
Social worker
Short answer: Sozialarbeiterin takes the article die (die Sozialarbeiterin). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “social worker” in English.
Sozialarbeiterin: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Social worker
- Topic
- Relationships and community
- Yupo level
- Advanced
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Why does Sozialarbeiterin 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 →Sozialarbeiterin in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | die Sozialarbeiterin |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | die Sozialarbeiterin |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | der Sozialarbeiterin |
