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The article for

Malaria

die Malaria

Malaria 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 Malaria?

Malaria is a compound noun, and German compounds take the article of their last word: die Ria. So it’s die Malaria.

Sense 1
die

Meaning

[1] Medicine: Fevering, often periodic epidemic infectious disease, caused by individual spore animals (protozoa of the genus plasmodium), which can be reached above all by transmission by mosquitoes into the blood

[1] Medizin: fieberhafte, durch wiederkehrende, oft periodische Schübe gekennzeichnete Infektionskrankheit, hervorgerufen durch einzellige Sporentierchen (Protozoen der Gattung Plasmodium), die vor allem durch Übertragung durch Stechmücken ins Blut gelangen

Examples

According to the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin

[1] Nach Angaben des Robert-Koch-Instituts in Berlin sterben weltweit jährlich 1,5 bis 2,7 Millionen Menschen an Malaria.

[1] "We don't want to notice that around 400,000 children die every year"

[1] „Wir wollen nicht wahrnehmen, dass jedes Jahr etwa 400 000 Kinder an Malaria sterben.“
More source examples (2)

These dictionary examples can include historical and less common uses.

[1] "Before we go to bed, Falk sprays himself, his sleeping bag and the entire room with a spray full that Malaria transferred to him should keep the mosquito from his body"

[1] „Bevor wir ins Bett gehen, sprüht Falk sich, seinen Schlafsack und das gesamte Zimmer mit einem Spray voll, das ihm Malaria übertragende Mücken vom Leib halten soll.“

[1] "The victims didn't even know what happened to them, because the cause of the malaria was still unknown"

[1] „Die Opfer wussten nicht einmal, wie ihnen geschah, denn die Ursache der Malaria war noch unbekannt.“

Declension

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

Pronunciation

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