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The article for

Pflegefamilie

die Pflegefamilie

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

Plural
die Pflegefamilien

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Why is it die Pflegefamilie?

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

Sense 1
die

Meaning

[1] Family that takes up and educates a child of other parents

[1] Familie, die ein Kind anderer Eltern aufnimmt und erzieht

Examples

[1] "The eleven -year Jeremie will not return to his former foster family in the hiking circus"

[1] „Der elfjährige Jeremie wird nicht zu seiner ehemaligen Pflegefamilie in den Wanderzirkus zurückkehren.“

Declension

1 Singular Plural
Nominativ die Pflegefamilie die Pflegefamilien
Genitiv der Pflegefamilie der Pflegefamilien
Dativ der Pflegefamilie den Pflegefamilien
Akkusativ die Pflegefamilie die Pflegefamilien

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