Word Endings That Trigger Feminine Articles

Imagine you can just look at the ending of a German noun, and you already know the article? Not bad, right?

Here are a couple of endings that mostly trigger the feminine article:

… heit, …keit, …schaft, …ung, …tät, …ur, ...ion, …enz, ...anz, …ei, …ade

Now, let’s have a look at some examples that you can easily memorize:

Tab on the endings in the chart below, and listen to the audio at the bottom of the list! Then, memorize each noun with its article.