Why is it die Belletristik?
Belletristik ends in -ik, and almost all nouns ending in -ik are feminine: in a German dictionary, 93% of them take die.
All nouns ending in -ik die
Meaning
Examples
[1] "Here, too, it is striking that fiction has the slightest vocabulary, the newspapers - except strangely in the second time - the Reichstä" "
[1] „Auch hier fällt auf, dass die Belletristik den geringsten Wortschatz aufweist, die Zeitungen - außer seltsamerweise in der zweiten Zeitscheibe - den reichsten.“
[2] I like to read fiction
[2] Ich lese gern Belletristik.
Declension
| 1 | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominativ | die Belletristik | — |
| Genitiv | der Belletristik | — |
| Dativ | der Belletristik | — |
| Akkusativ | die Belletristik | — |
Pronunciation
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