What does Tastenkombination mean in English?

In English, die Tastenkombination means “keyboard shortcut”.

What are the accusative and dative forms of Tastenkombination?

Nominative: die Tastenkombination. Accusative: die Tastenkombination. Dative: der Tastenkombination.

Tastenkombination: der, die or das?

dieTastenkombination

Keyboard shortcut

feminin · feminineTechnology and mediaLevel: Intermediate

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

Tastenkombination: word facts

Article: die
Gender: feminin (feminine)
English: Keyboard shortcut
Topic: Technology and media
Yupo level: Intermediate

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Why does Tastenkombination take die?

Nouns ending in -ion usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 86 of 86 such words take die (100%).

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Tastenkombination in the accusative and dative

Singular, with the definite article

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