Überschwemmung: der, die or das?
dieÜberschwemmung
Flooding
Short answer: Überschwemmung takes the article die (die Überschwemmung). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “flooding” in English.
Überschwemmung: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Flooding
- Topic
- Nature and the outdoors
- Yupo level
- Advanced
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Why does Überschwemmung take die?
Nouns ending in -ung usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 227 of 227 such words take die (100%).
See the article rules →Überschwemmung in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | die Überschwemmung |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | die Überschwemmung |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | der Überschwemmung |
