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The article for

Olympiade

die Olympiade

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

Plural
die Olympiaden

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Why is it die Olympiade?

Olympiade ends in -ade, and almost all nouns ending in -ade are feminine: in a German dictionary, 93% of them take die.

All nouns ending in -ade
Sense 1
die

Meaning

[1] The Olympic Games (a big international sporting competition in several disciplines)

[1] die Olympischen Spiele (ein großer internationaler sportlicher Wettkampf in etlichen Disziplinen)

[2] Original meaning, today rare: period of four years (between the Olympic Games))

[2] ursprüngliche Bedeutung, heute selten: Zeitspanne von vier Jahren (zwischen den Olympischen Spielen)

Examples

[1] Many athletes take part in the Olympics

[1] Viele Sportler nehmen an der Olympiade teil.

[1] "At the beginning of the 1970s, all sorts of things happened in the city because of the upcoming Olympic Cycle"

[1] „Anfang der siebziger Jahre tat sich allerhand in der Stadt, wegen der bevorstehenden Olympiade.“
More source examples (1)

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[2] They took place every four years from around 776 from Chr. To 393 AD, after an Olympics, in summer on the Holy Hain of Olympics in the Elis landscape on the Peloponnese peninsula.

[2] Sie fanden von etwa 776 v. Chr. bis 393 n. Chr. alle vier Jahre, nach Ablauf einer Olympiade, im Sommer auf dem heiligen Hain von Olympia in der Landschaft Elis auf der Halbinsel Peloponnes statt.

Declension

1 Singular Plural
Nominativ die Olympiade die Olympiaden
Genitiv der Olympiade der Olympiaden
Dativ der Olympiade den Olympiaden
Akkusativ die Olympiade die Olympiaden

Pronunciation

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