Work-Life-Balance: der, die or das?
dieWork-Life-Balance
Work-life balance
Short answer: Work-Life-Balance takes the article die (die Work-Life-Balance). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “work-life balance” in English.
Work-Life-Balance: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Work-life balance
- Topic
- Career and learning
- Yupo level
- Advanced
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Why does Work-Life-Balance take die?
Nouns ending in -e usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 583 of 607 such words take die (96%).
See the article rules →Remember it by color
In Yupo, die words are red. Picture Work-Life-Balance as something red.
Always say and write the word with its article: not “Work-Life-Balance” but “die Work-Life-Balance”.
