Why is it die Beharrlichkeit?
Beharrlichkeit ends in -keit, and nouns ending in -keit are feminine: in a German dictionary, 100% of them take die.
All nouns ending in -keitMeaning
[1] persistent capacity to be persistent
[1] Beharrlichsein; Eigenschaft, beharrlich zu seinExamples
[1] He had fought with immense perseverance to ensure that the health insurance company took over the treatment costs of his daughter
[1] Er hatte mit immenser Beharrlichkeit dafür gekämpft, dass die Krankenkasse die Behandlungskosten seiner Tochter übernahm.
[1] "Environmental certainty is adhered to perseverance that can prove to be preserved as the human being"
[1] „Lebensweltlichen Gewissheiten haftet eine Beharrlichkeit an, die sich als Wahrung des Humanen zu erweisen vermag.“
More source examples (2)
These dictionary examples can include historical and less common uses.
[1] "He saw him a very sharp and clearly thinking intellectual man who only used the power to which his energy and persistence had reached him, only for the benefit of Russia" "
[1] „Er sah in ihm einen sehr scharf und klar denkenden Verstandesmenschen, der die Macht, zu der ihn seine Energie und seine Beharrlichkeit hatten gelangen lssen, lediglich zum Wohle Russlands benutzte.“
[1] "This highly insulting persistence appeared to me monsterly"
[1] „Diese höchst beleidigende Beharrlichkeit erschien mir ungeheuerlich.“
Declension
| 1 | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominativ | die Beharrlichkeit | — |
| Genitiv | der Beharrlichkeit | — |
| Dativ | der Beharrlichkeit | — |
| Akkusativ | die Beharrlichkeit | — |
Pronunciation
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