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The article for

Bakterium

das Bakterium

Bakterium is a neuter German noun. Its article is das.

Plural
die Bakterien

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Why is it das Bakterium?

Bakterium ends in -ium, and nouns ending in -ium are neuter: in a German dictionary, 100% of them take das.

All nouns ending in -ium
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Meaning

[1] Biology: Silent, individual, prokaryotic living being without cell nucleus

[1] Biologie: sich teilendes, einzelliges, prokaryotisches Lebewesen ohne Zellkern

Examples

[1] "If a bacterium even wanted its genes, only tenfolds, it would also need almost ten times the amount of energy"

[1] „Wollte ein Bakterium seine Gene auch nur verzehnfachen, bräuchte es auch fast die zehnfache Menge an Energie.“

Declension

1 Singular Plural
Nominativ das Bakterium die Bakterien
Genitiv des Bakteriums der Bakterien
Dativ dem Bakterium den Bakterien
Akkusativ das Bakterium die Bakterien

Pronunciation

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