Why is it die Dialektik?
Dialektik 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] "For the first time there is the expression dialectic at Platonä"
[1] „Zum ersten Mal findet sich der Ausdruck Dialektik bei Platon.“
[2] "Here it is only important for us that the dialectics are responsible for the constitution of mathematics"
[2] „Hier ist für uns nur wichtig, daß die Dialektik für die Konstitution von Mathematik verantwortlich ist.“
Declension
| 1 | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominativ | die Dialektik | — |
| Genitiv | der Dialektik | — |
| Dativ | der Dialektik | — |
| Akkusativ | die Dialektik | — |
Pronunciation
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