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Danzig

(das) Danzig

Danzig is a proper noun and usually takes no article. When one is needed it is das.

Learn the noun together with its article: See the article rules.

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Meaning

[1] City and port city in Poland, former Hanseatic city

[1] Großstadt und Hafenstadt in Polen, ehemalige Hansestadt

[2] An asteroid of the main belt

[2] ein Asteroid des Hauptgürtels

Examples

Danzig, together with Gdingen, Zoppot and smaller cities

[1] Danzig bildet zusammen mit Gdingen, Zoppot und kleineren Städten den Ballungsraum Dreistadt mit einer Million Einwohnern.

[1] "By the Versailles Treaty, which came into force on 101.1920, the city of Danzig was separated from the German Reich with the surrounding area and declared a independent free city under the protection of the League of Nations."

[1] „Durch den Versailler Vertrag, der am 10.1.1920 in Kraft trat, wurde die Stadt Danzig mit Umgebung vom Deutschen Reich abgetrennt und zur selbständigen freien Stadt unter dem Schutz des Völkerbunds erklärt.“

Danzig was discovered in 1929 by the German astronomer Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth

[2] Danzig wurde 1929 vom deutschen Astronomen Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth entdeckt.
Grammar note

The article is needed if "Gdansk" in a certain quality, at a certain time or period as a subject or object in the sentence, is otherwise, i.e. usually, no article is used.

Declension

1 Singular Plural
Nominativ (das) Danzig —
Genitiv (des Danzig) (des Danzigs) Danzigs —
Dativ (dem) Danzig —
Akkusativ (das) Danzig —

Pronunciation

In context

[1] das Krantor, Wahrzeichen von Danzig
[1] das Krantor, Wahrzeichen von Danzig Wikimedia Commons

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