Why is it der Nationalist?
Nationalist ends in -ist, and nouns ending in -ist are masculine: in a German dictionary, 97% of them take der.
All nouns ending in -ist der
Meaning
[1] Pendant/representative of the nationalism someone someone who represents the interests of their own nation over everyone else
[1] Anhänger/Vertreter des Nationalismus; jemand, der die Interessen der eigenen Nation über alle anderen stelltExamples
[1] "My grandparents and my great -grandmother had to leave their homes in 1930 when more and more Muslims were victims of the violence of Serbian nationalists"
[1] „Meine Großeltern und meine Urgroßmutter hatten schon 1930 ihre Heimat verlassen müssen, als immer mehr Muslime Opfer der Gewalt serbischer Nationalisten wurden.“
Declension
| 1 | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominativ | der Nationalist | die Nationalisten |
| Genitiv | des Nationalisten | der Nationalisten |
| Dativ | dem Nationalisten | den Nationalisten |
| Akkusativ | den Nationalisten | die Nationalisten |
Pronunciation
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