Why is it die Apparatur?
Apparatur ends in -tur, and almost all nouns ending in -tur are feminine: in a German dictionary, 95% of them take die.
All nouns ending in -tur die
Meaning
[1] total of several devices that together meet a purpose
[1] Gesamtheit mehrerer Gerätschaften, die zusammen einen Zweck erfüllenExamples
[1] "A researcher directed the apparatus during a repetition of Stanley Miller's famous experiment"
[1] „Ein Forscher richtet während einer Wiederholung von Stanley Millers berühmten Experiment die Apparatur ein.“
Declension
| 1 | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominativ | die Apparatur | die Apparaturen |
| Genitiv | der Apparatur | der Apparaturen |
| Dativ | der Apparatur | den Apparaturen |
| Akkusativ | die Apparatur | die Apparaturen |
Pronunciation
In context
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