Temperatur: der, die or das?
dieTemperatur
Temperature
Short answer: Temperatur takes the article die (die Temperatur). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “temperature” in English.
Temperatur: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Temperature
- Topic
- Nature and the outdoors
- Yupo level
- Advanced
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Why does Temperatur take die?
Nouns ending in -ur usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 16 of 16 such words take die (100%).
See the article rules →Temperatur in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | die Temperatur |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | die Temperatur |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | der Temperatur |
