{"id":72,"date":"2009-05-12T12:25:29","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T17:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/?p=72"},"modified":"2017-11-13T13:44:13","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T13:44:13","slug":"german-feminine-nouns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/german-feminine-nouns\/","title":{"rendered":"German Feminine Nouns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of course the best way is to memorize the &#8220;die&#8221; as a part of the word. However, there may be cases where you just might not be sure. Here are some noun endings that may indicate that the noun is feminine. I just want to clarify that this isn&#8217;t 100% true in all cases, but it&#8217;s a good guideline.<\/p>\n<p>-heit : <strong>die Freiheit<\/strong> (freedom)<\/p>\n<p>-keit : <strong>die M\u00fcdigkeit<\/strong> (tiredness)<\/p>\n<p>-t\u00e4t : <strong>die Universit\u00e4t<\/strong> (university)<\/p>\n<p>-ung : <strong>die Zeitung<\/strong> (newspaper)<\/p>\n<p>-schaft : <strong>die Erbschaft<\/strong> (inheritance)<\/p>\n<p>-ie : <strong>die Geographie<\/strong> (geography)<\/p>\n<p>-ik : <strong>die Musik<\/strong> (music)<\/p>\n<p>-ei :<strong> die W\u00e4scherei<\/strong> (laundry)<\/p>\n<p>-enz : <strong>die Frequenz<\/strong> (frequency)<\/p>\n<p>-anz : <strong>die Toleranz<\/strong> (tolerance)<\/p>\n<p>-ion : <strong>die Kommunikation<\/strong> (communication)<\/p>\n<p>-a : <strong>die Pizza<\/strong> (pizza)<\/p>\n<p>-e : <strong>die Seuche<\/strong> (epidemic)<\/p>\n<p>-ur : <strong>die Konjunktur<\/strong> (economic trend)<\/p>\n<p>-in : <strong>die Studentin<\/strong> (student) The &#8220;in&#8221; is a common feminine noun ending. It indicates female people, occupations and nationalities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course the best way is to memorize the &#8220;die&#8221; as a part of the word. However, there may be cases where you just might not be sure. Here are some noun endings that may indicate that the noun is feminine. I just want to clarify that this isn&#8217;t 100% true in all cases, but&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/german-feminine-nouns\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[933],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-language","tag-feminine-noun-endings"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8833,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/8833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}