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Fettleibigkeit

die Fettleibigkeit

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

Plural
no plural

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Why is it die Fettleibigkeit?

Fettleibigkeit ends in -keit, and nouns ending in -keit are feminine: in a German dictionary, 100% of them take die.

All nouns ending in -keit
Sense 1
die

Meaning

[1] Property to be too thick

[1] Eigenschaft, zu dick zu sein

Examples

[1] "The obesity is almost epidemic in this country"

[1] „Die Fettleibigkeit ist in diesem Land geradezu epidemisch.“

[1] "Like all thicknesses, whose obesity is not due to frustration, but pleasure addiction, he was jovial, human -friendly and not stingy"

[1] „Wie alle Dicken, deren Fettleibigkeit nicht auf Frustration, sondern Genusssucht zurückzuführen ist, war er jovial, menschenfreundlich und nicht geizig.“
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These dictionary examples can include historical and less common uses.

[1] "Obesity and obesity became unmistakable side effects of modern prosperity societies"

[1] „Übergewicht und Fettleibigkeit wurden zu unübersehbaren Begleiterscheinungen moderner Wohlstandsgesellschaften.“

Declension

1 Singular Plural
Nominativ die Fettleibigkeit —
Genitiv der Fettleibigkeit —
Dativ der Fettleibigkeit —
Akkusativ die Fettleibigkeit —

Pronunciation

In context

[1] Fettleibigkeit
[1] Fettleibigkeit Wikimedia Commons
[1] Fettleibigkeit
[1] Fettleibigkeit Wikimedia Commons

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