Therapie: der, die or das?
dieTherapie
Therapy
Short answer: Therapie takes the article die (die Therapie). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “therapy” in English.
Therapie: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Therapy
- Topic
- Relationships and community
- Yupo level
- Beginner
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Why does Therapie take die?
Nouns ending in -ie usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 53 of 54 such words take die (98%).
See the article rules →Therapie in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | die Therapie |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | die Therapie |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | der Therapie |

