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Eizelle

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

Plural
die Eizellen

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Why is it die Eizelle?

Eizelle ends in -e, and most nouns ending in -e are feminine: in a German dictionary, 79% of them take die.

All nouns ending in -e
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Meaning

[1] Female nucleus of two -sex living things

[1] weibliche Keimzelle zweigeschlechtlicher Lebewesen

Examples

[1] Under the microscope we see an egg cell

[1] Unter dem Mikroskop sehen wir eine Eizelle.

[1] "The ovary [...] produces the female hormones and the egg cells that are collected by the fallopian tube [...] where fertilization takes place"

[1] „Der Eierstock […] produziert die weiblichen Hormone und die Eizellen, die vom Eileiter […] aufgefangen werden, wo die Befruchtung stattfindet.“

Declension

1 Singular Plural
Nominativ die Eizelle die Eizellen
Genitiv der Eizelle der Eizellen
Dativ der Eizelle den Eizellen
Akkusativ die Eizelle die Eizellen

Pronunciation

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