Vormundschaft: der, die or das?
dieVormundschaft
Guardianship
Short answer: Vormundschaft takes the article die (die Vormundschaft). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “guardianship” in English.
Vormundschaft: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Guardianship
- Topic
- Relationships and community
- Yupo level
- Advanced
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Why does Vormundschaft take die?
Nouns ending in -schaft usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 37 of 37 such words take die (100%).
See the article rules →Vormundschaft in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | die Vormundschaft |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | die Vormundschaft |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | der Vormundschaft |
