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The article for

Hybris

die Hybris

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

Plural
no plural

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

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Why is it die Hybris?

Hybris ends in -is, but that ending doesn’t settle the article: in a German dictionary, 61% of -is nouns take die, 28% take der, and 11% take das. So learn it with its article: die Hybris.

Which endings you can rely on
Sense 1
die

Meaning

[1] Reality, excessive and inappropriate trust in the actions of one's own person

[1] realitätsfernes, maßloses und unangemessenes Vertrauen in die Handlungen der eigenen Person

Examples

[1] "What Holzinger performed, rather hybris opposed to the past, the hybris of self -righteous people who afterwards know exactly how morally integrated they would have behaved, they would have been in the place of the unworthy" "

[1] „Was Holzinger vortrug, drückte eher Hybris gegenüber der Vergangenheit aus; die Hybris selbstgerechter Menschen, die im nachhinein genau wissen, wie moralisch integer sie sich verhalten hätten, wären sie an der Stelle der Unwürdigen gewesen.“

[1] "The hybris is also connected to the space of the height"

[1] „Auch die Hybris ist mit dem Raum der Höhe verbunden.“
More source examples (2)

These dictionary examples can include historical and less common uses.

[1] "Such hybris was the normal case in the imperialist 19 person."

[1] „Solche Hybris war im imperialistischen 19. Jahrhundert der Normalfall.“

[1] "Adventurers like Carl Peters presented the Iron Chancellor in front of a full facts and hardly left him a choice than to get into colonial hybris" "

[1] „Abenteurer wie Carl Peters stellten den Eisernen Kanzler vor vollendete Tatsachen und ließen ihm kaum eine andere Wahl, als sich auf koloniale Hybris einzulassen.“

Declension

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

Pronunciation

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