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The article for

Attacke

die Attacke

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

Plural
die Attacken
English
attack

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Why is it die Attacke?

Attacke ends in -e, and most nouns ending in -e are feminine: in a German dictionary, 79% of them take die.

All nouns ending in -e
Sense 1
die

Meaning

[1] (military) attack

[1] (militärischer) Angriff

[2] attacking an illness

[2] anfallartiges Auftreten einer Krankheit

Examples

[1] The special unit prepared the attack thoroughly

[1] Die Spezialeinheit bereitete die Attacke gründlich vor.

[1] "A few years after the first attacks, the Vikings threaten wide coastal lines Europe" "

[1] „Wenige Jahre nach den ersten Attacken bedrohen die Wikinger weite Küstenstriche Europas.“
More source examples (4)

These dictionary examples can include historical and less common uses.

[1] "They had led the attack across the country, were stopped by machine gun fire from the deep street and the farmhouses, then had no resistance in the village and had reached the river bank"

[1] „Sie hatten die Attacke querfeldein geführt, waren durch Maschinengewehrfeuer von der tief gelegenen Straße und den Bauernhäusern her aufgehalten worden, waren dann im Ort auf keinerlei Widerstand gestoßen und hatten das Flussufer erreicht.“

[1] "The attack on the soldiers heavily armed by at least 400 Garrison Squirers"

[1] „Die Attacke auf die von mindestens 400 schwer bewaffneten Soldaten bewachte Garnison scheiterte.“

[1] "Your terror was more determined, better organized and therefore more dangerous than most other attacks on refugees"

[1] „Ihr Terror war entschlossener, besser organisiert und darum gefährlicher als die meisten anderen Attacken auf Flüchtlinge.“

[2] Before he was able to end the sentence, he was interrupted by a sudden cough attack

[2] Bevor er den Satz beenden konnte, wurde er von einer plötzlichen Hustenattacke unterbrochen.

Declension

1 Singular Plural
Nominativ die Attacke die Attacken
Genitiv der Attacke der Attacken
Dativ der Attacke den Attacken
Akkusativ die Attacke die Attacken

Pronunciation

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