Why is it das Hospital?
Hospital 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 Hospital.
Which endings you can rely on das
Meaning
[1] Institution for the care of sick and/or those in need of care
[1] Anstalt zur Versorgung Kranker und/oder PflegebedürftigerExamples
[1] "We are in a Catholic hospital, in the same room"
[1] „Wir liegen in einem katholischen Hospital, im gleichen Zimmer.“
[1] "The Hospital was high above Bamakoe"
[1] „Das Hospital lag hoch über Bamako.“
More source examples (1)
These dictionary examples can include historical and less common uses.
[1] "After we left the hospital, we agreed that we would get everyone a field bottle to walk between the dead and to tackle their Jamaica rum"
[1] „Nachdem wir das Hospital verlassen hatten, vereinbarten wir, dass wir jeder eine Feldflasche besorgen würden, um zwischen den Toten umherzugehen und ihren Jamaika-Rum abzuzapfen.“
Declension
| 1 | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominativ | das Hospital | die Hospitäler |
| Genitiv | des Hospitals | der Hospitäler |
| Dativ | dem Hospital | den Hospitälern |
| Akkusativ | das Hospital | die Hospitäler |
Pronunciation
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