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The article for

Gotik

die Gotik

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

Plural
no plural

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Why is it die Gotik?

Gotik ends in -ik, and almost all nouns ending in -ik are feminine: in a German dictionary, 93% of them take die.

All nouns ending in -ik
Sense 1
die

Meaning

[1] Art history: The art style of the medieval European high culture of the 13esh to the 15th century, which is particularly pronounced in the church architecture of the cathedrals

[1] Kunstgeschichte: der Kunststil der mittelalterlichen europäischen Hochkultur des 13. bis 15. Jahrhunderts der besonders ausgeprägt in der kirchlichen Baukunst der Kathedralen hervortritt

Examples

[1] In the style of the Gothic, many impressive churches have been built

[1] Im Stil der Gotik sind viele eindrucksvolle Kirchen errichtet worden.

[1] "The Gothic is the result and medium of complex socio-economic, political, church-religious and cultural-spiritual processes within feudalism as a socio-economic social formation"

[1] "Die Gotik ist Resultat und Medium komplexer sozialökonomischer, politischer, kirchlich-religiöser und kulturell-geistiger Vorgänge innerhalb des Feudalismus als sozialökonomische Gesellschaftsformation."
More source examples (1)

These dictionary examples can include historical and less common uses.

[1] "An altar has often been set up in the sacristy since the Gothic"

[1] „Seit der Gotik wurde oft in der Sakristei ein Altar aufgestellt.“

Declension

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

Pronunciation

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