Zeitung: der, die or das?
dieZeitung
Newspaper
Short answer: Zeitung takes the article die (die Zeitung). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “newspaper” in English.
Zeitung: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- Newspaper
- Topic
- Home and daily life
- Yupo level
- Intermediate
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Why does Zeitung 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 →Zeitung in the accusative and dative
Singular, with the definite article
| Nominativsubject: who? what? | die Zeitung |
|---|---|
| Akkusativdirect object: whom? what? | die Zeitung |
| Dativindirect object: to whom? | der Zeitung |
