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The article for

Fremdkapital

das Fremdkapital

Fremdkapital is a neuter German noun. Its article is das.

Plural
no plural

Learn the noun together with its article. See the article rules.

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Why is it das Fremdkapital?

Fremdkapital ends in -al, but that ending doesn’t settle the article: in a German dictionary, 65% of -al nouns take das and 33% take der. So learn it with its article: das Fremdkapital.

Which endings you can rely on
Sense 1
das

Meaning

[1] Short, medium or long-term capital that is not available to a company that is not equity

[1] kurz-, mittel- oder langfristig einem Unternehmen zur Verfügung gestelltes Kapital, das nicht Eigenkapital ist

Examples

[1] The debt is too high

[1] Das Fremdkapital ist zu hoch.

[1] We need short -term debt if we want to increase the production figures

[1] Wir brauchen kurzfristiges Fremdkapital, wenn wir die Produktionszahlen erhöhen wollen.

Declension

1 Singular Plural
Nominativ das Fremdkapital —
Genitiv des Fremdkapitals —
Dativ dem Fremdkapital —
Akkusativ das Fremdkapital —

Pronunciation

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