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The article for

Intuition

die Intuition

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

Plural
die Intuitionen
English
intuition
Level
B2
Topic
Thinking

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Why is it die Intuition?

Intuition ends in -ion, and almost all nouns ending in -ion are feminine: in a German dictionary, 94% of them take die.

All nouns ending in -ion
Sense 1
die

Meaning

[1] Psychology: The ability to make impulsive and unconscious decisions and act

[1] Psychologie: Die Fähigkeit, impulsiv und unbewusst zu entscheiden und zu handeln.

Examples

[1] Following his intuition, Paul put on the right number in the roulette game and stroked a high profit one

[1] Seiner Intuition folgend, setzte Paul beim Roulettespiel auf die richtige Zahl und strich einen hohen Gewinn ein.

[1] "Apparently, as native speakers, they have intuitions about regularities, which makes it unlikely that all information must be entered in a list for one word"

[1] „Offenbar haben Sie als Muttersprachler Intuitionen über Regularitäten, was es unwahrscheinlich macht, daß die gesamte Information zu einem Wort in eine Liste eingetragen werden muß.“
More source examples (1)

These dictionary examples can include historical and less common uses.

[2] "This simple remark about the primacy of intuition has other interesting effects"

[2] „Diese schlichte Bemerkung über das Primat der Intuition hat noch weitere interessante Auswirkungen.“

Declension

1 Singular Plural
Nominativ die Intuition die Intuitionen
Genitiv der Intuition der Intuitionen
Dativ der Intuition den Intuitionen
Akkusativ die Intuition die Intuitionen

Pronunciation

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