Why is it das Meeting?
Meeting ends in -ing, and most nouns ending in -ing are neuter: in a German dictionary, 84% of them take das.
All nouns ending in -ingMeaning
[1] General: Meeting of people to exchange ideas about problems/topics that affect those involved
[1] allgemein: Zusammenkunft von Personen, um sich über Probleme/Themen auszutauschen, von denen die Beteiligten betroffen sind[2] Sports event in a small scale
[2] Sportveranstaltung in kleinem RahmenExamples
[1] My husband is still on a meeting
[1] Mein Mann ist noch auf einem Meeting.
[1] "At a meeting in the Heinz-Bartsch high school in Pankow, girls and boys of the anti-fascist, who would have been 80 years old on September 13, would have been 80."
[1] „Bei einem Meeting in der Heinz-Bartsch-Oberschule in Pankow gedachten Mädchen und Jungen des Antifaschisten, der am 13. September 80 Jahre alt geworden wäre.“
More source examples (2)
These dictionary examples can include historical and less common uses.
[1] "Zac Petkanas has little time, he speaks quickly, chopped off, he has long since had to be at the next meeting"
[1] „Zac Petkanas hat wenig Zeit, er spricht schnell, abgehackt, längst müsse er beim nächsten Meeting sein.“
[1] "During these investigations, the meeting had come to an end, and the captain hurried to the meeting room"
[1] „Während dieser Untersuchungen hatte das Meeting ihr Ende genommen, und der Kapitän eilte dem Sitzungssaale zu.“
Declension
| 1 | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominativ | das Meeting | die Meetings |
| Genitiv | des Meetings | der Meetings |
| Dativ | dem Meeting | den Meetings |
| Akkusativ | das Meeting | die Meetings |
Pronunciation
In context
![[1] sich treffen zu einem Meeting](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Comisi%C3%B3n_de_los_Derechos_de_los_Trabajadores_(8268271512).jpg)
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