Why is it die Fremdheit?
Fremdheit ends in -heit, and nouns ending in -heit are feminine: in a German dictionary, 99% of them take die.
All nouns ending in -heit die
Meaning
Examples
[1] "The next day we strolled through the latitudes, straight streets and enjoyed the charm of the strangeness of a city of fifteen thousand inhabitants, in which there were no leaners and in which there were no drunkard or bawk"
[1] „Am nächsten Tag schlenderten wir nach allen Richtungen durch die breiten, geraden, ebenen Straßen und genossen den Reiz der Fremdheit einer Stadt von fünfzehntausend Einwohnern, in der keine Herumlungerer zu sehen waren und in der es weder Trunkenbolde oder Rabauken gab.“
[1] "On the other hand, Angloromanisms, for example, mainly preserve their strangeness because they follow foreign word formation patterns (...)
[1] „Andererseits bewahren etwa Angloromanismen ihre Fremdheit in erster Linie deshalb, weil sie fremden Wortbildungsmustern folgen (…).“
More source examples (2)
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Declension
| 1 | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominativ | die Fremdheit | — |
| Genitiv | der Fremdheit | — |
| Dativ | der Fremdheit | — |
| Akkusativ | die Fremdheit | — |
Pronunciation
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