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The article for

Edition

die Edition

Edition is a feminine German noun. Its article is die.

Plural
die Editionen

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Why is it die Edition?

Edition ends in -ion, and almost all nouns ending in -ion are feminine: in a German dictionary, 94% of them take die.

All nouns ending in -ion
Sense 1
die

Meaning

[1] Edition or edition of books, among other things,

[1] Auflage oder Ausgabe unter anderem von Büchern

Examples

[1] He has the last 10 editions of the Dudenä

[1] Er besitzt die letzten 10 Editionen des Duden.

[1] "While in their editions of the popular oral narrative and songs, they were looking for the traces of their presence in the recording, Borrow puts his person in the center" "

[1] „Während diese in ihren Editionen des volkstümlichen mündlichen Erzähl- und Liedgutes die Spuren ihrer Anwesenheit bei der Aufzeichnung zu tilgen suchten, stellt Borrow seine Person in den Mittelpunkt.“
More source examples (1)

These dictionary examples can include historical and less common uses.

[1] "The present full and faithful German first edition of the memoirs Casanovas is based on the edition of the publisher Fä A. Brockhaus described above."

[1] „Die vorliegende vollständige und originalgetreue deutsche Erstausgabe der Memoiren Casanovas beruht auf der oben beschriebenen Edition des Verlages F. A. Brockhaus.“

Declension

1 Singular Plural
Nominativ die Edition die Editionen
Genitiv der Edition der Editionen
Dativ der Edition den Editionen
Akkusativ die Edition die Editionen

Pronunciation

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