Is it der, die or das Affiliation?

DIE

Affiliation

The correct article in German of Affiliation is die. So it is die Affiliation! (nominative case)

The word Affiliation is feminine, therefore the correct article is die.

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German declension of Affiliation?

How does the declension of Affiliation work in the nominative, accusative, dative and genitive cases? Here you can find all forms in the singular as well as in the plural:

1	Singular	Plural
Nominative	die Affiliation	die Affiliationen
Genitive	der Affiliation	der Affiliationen
Dative	der Affiliation	den Affiliationen
Akkusative	die Affiliation	die Affiliationen

What is the meaning of Affiliation in German?

Affiliation has various definitions in German:

[1] Psychology: Tendency, regardless of the feelings towards other people, search for the society of others

[1] Psychologie: Tendenz, unabhängig von den Gefühlen gegenüber anderen Personen die Gesellschaft anderer zu suchen.

[2] Linguistics: assignment of a language to a language family and determination of the position, position of languages in a language family

[2] Linguistik: Zuordnung einer Sprache zu einer Sprachfamilie und Feststellung der Position, Stellung von Sprachen in einer Sprachfamilie

Several meanings are still missing - comment: 3 Bddtg. From the DWDS or four from the Duden are missing

Mehrere Bedeutungen fehlen noch. — Kommentar: 3 Bdtg. aus dem DWDS bzw vier aus dem Duden fehlen

How to use Affiliation in a sentence?

Example sentences in German using Affiliation with translations in English.

[1] Seine Kontaktsuche nach fremden Menschen könnte man schon als Affiliation bezeichnen.

[1] His contact search for strangers could already be described as an affiliation

[2] Deutsch gehört zu den germanischen Sprachen. Entsprechend kann man seine Affiliation im Verhältnis zu den anderen germanischen Sprachen bestimmen: Es ist eng verwandt mit dem Niederländischen, weniger eng mit dem Englischen oder gar dem Isländischen.

[2] German belongs to the Germanic language. Accordingly, one can determine its affiliation in relation to the other Germanic languages: it is closely related to the Dutch, less closely with English or even Icelandic.