What does Wohngemeinschaft mean in English?

In English, die Wohngemeinschaft means “shared apartment”.

What are the accusative and dative forms of Wohngemeinschaft?

Nominative: die Wohngemeinschaft. Accusative: die Wohngemeinschaft. Dative: der Wohngemeinschaft.

Wohngemeinschaft: der, die or das?

dieWohngemeinschaft

Shared apartment

feminin · feminineHome and daily lifeLevel: Advanced

Short answer: Wohngemeinschaft takes the article die (die Wohngemeinschaft). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “shared apartment” in English.

Wohngemeinschaft: word facts

Article: die
Gender: feminin (feminine)
English: Shared apartment
Topic: Home and daily life
Yupo level: Advanced

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Why does Wohngemeinschaft take die?

Nouns ending in -schaft usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 37 of 37 such words take die (100%).

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Wohngemeinschaft in the accusative and dative

Singular, with the definite article

Nominativsubject: who? what?	die Wohngemeinschaft
Akkusativdirect object: whom? what?	die Wohngemeinschaft
Dativindirect object: to whom?	der Wohngemeinschaft