Trockenheit: der, die or das?
dieTrockenheit
Drought
Short answer: Trockenheit takes the article die (die Trockenheit). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “drought” in English.
Trockenheit: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Drought
- Topic
- Nature and the outdoors
- Yupo level
- Advanced
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Why does Trockenheit take die?
Nouns ending in -heit usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 17 of 17 such words take die (100%).
See the article rules →Trockenheit in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | die Trockenheit |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | die Trockenheit |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | der Trockenheit |
