Stipendium: der, die or das?
dasStipendium
Scholarship
Short answer: Stipendium takes the article das (das Stipendium). It’s a neuter noun (German: neutral) and means “scholarship” in English.
Stipendium: word facts
- Article
- das
- Gender
- neutral (neuter)
- English
- Scholarship
- Topic
- Career and learning
- Yupo level
- Intermediate
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Why does Stipendium take das?
Nouns ending in -um usually take das. In Yupo’s list, 18 of 18 such words take das (100%).
See the article rules →Stipendium in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | das Stipendium |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | das Stipendium |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | dem Stipendium |
