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The article for

Kümmernis

die Kümmernis

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

Plural
die Kümmernisse

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

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Why is it die Kümmernis?

Kümmernis ends in -nis, but that ending doesn’t settle the article: in a German dictionary, 66% of -nis nouns take das and 33% take die. So learn it with its article: die Kümmernis.

Which endings you can rely on
Sense 1
die

Meaning

[1] feeling of being worried about being worried

[1] Gefühl, bekümmert zu sein, sich einige Sorgen zu machen

Examples

[1] "So I wanted to go to the ward tomorrow morning and buy ourselves so that our day would like to be without worry"

[1] „Ich wollte also morgen früh zu ihm auf die Station gehen und uns loskaufen, damit unser Tag ohne Kümmernisse sein möchte.“

[1] "These were my first cares, namely the bitterest who a young person can feel"

[1] „Das waren meine ersten Kümmernisse, und zwar die bittersten, die ein junger Mensch empfinden kann.“
Grammar note

At Grimm, the neutral genus n is still given, here the outdated genitive form of worrying current dictionaries describe the lemma as exclusively feminine f.

Declension

1 Singular Plural
Nominativ die Kümmernis die Kümmernisse
Genitiv der Kümmernis der Kümmernisse
Dativ der Kümmernis den Kümmernissen
Akkusativ die Kümmernis die Kümmernisse

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