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The article for

Ambivalenz

die Ambivalenz

Ambivalenz is a feminine German noun. Its article is die.

Plural
die Ambivalenzen

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Why is it die Ambivalenz?

Ambivalenz ends in -enz, and nouns ending in -enz are feminine: in a German dictionary, 97% of them take die.

All nouns ending in -enz
Sense 1
die

Meaning

[1] ambiguity, ambiguity

[1] Doppeldeutigkeit, Zwiespältigkeit

[2] Psychology, psychiatry: wishes, feelings, ideas that are opposite, but exist side by side and therefore lead to internal tensions

[2] Psychologie, Psychiatrie: Wünsche, Gefühle, Vorstellungen, die gegensätzlich sind, jedoch nebeneinander bestehen und daher zu inneren Spannungen führen.

Examples

[1] His behavior was characterized by an unexpected ambivalence

[1] Sein Verhalten war von einer unerwarteten Ambivalenz geprägt.

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Declension

1 Singular Plural
Nominativ die Ambivalenz die Ambivalenzen
Genitiv der Ambivalenz der Ambivalenzen
Dativ der Ambivalenz den Ambivalenzen
Akkusativ die Ambivalenz die Ambivalenzen

Pronunciation

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