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The article for

Meditation

die Meditation

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

Plural
die Meditationen

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Why is it die Meditation?

Meditation 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] Meditation, deep sensing thinking

[1] das Meditieren, tiefes sinnendes Nachdenken

Examples

[1] Meditation calms soul and spirit

[1] Die Meditation beruhigt Seele und Geist.

[1] "In meditation you deal a lot with the breathing"

[1] „In der Meditation beschäftigt man sich viel mit der Atmung.“
More source examples (2)

These dictionary examples can include historical and less common uses.

[1] "Climbing is a kind of meditation for me"

[1] „Der Klettersport ist für mich eine Art Meditation geworden.“

[1] "His first semester was essentially filled out by theoretical studies and occasionally practical exercises in meditation and other spiritual activities"

[1] „Sein erstes Semester war im wesentlichen durch theoretisches Studium und gelegentlich praktische Übungen in Meditation und anderen geistlichen Verrichtungen ausgefüllt.“

Declension

1 Singular Plural
Nominativ die Meditation die Meditationen
Genitiv der Meditation der Meditationen
Dativ der Meditation den Meditationen
Akkusativ die Meditation die Meditationen

Pronunciation

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