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Phantasie

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

Plural
die Phantasien
English
imagination, fantasy
Level
B1
Topic
Thinking

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Why is it die Phantasie?

Phantasie ends in -ie, and nouns ending in -ie are feminine: in a German dictionary, 98% of them take die.

All nouns ending in -ie
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Meaning

[1] Imagination or creativity

[1] Vorstellungsvermögen oder Kreativität

[2] Events and conditions presented

[2] vorgestellte Ereignisse und Zustände

Examples

[1] "It happened more often that his imagination was stronger than his observation"

[1] „Es kam noch häufiger vor, dass seine Phantasie stärker war als seine Beobachtung.“

[1] "It is a whimsical process of how the imagination is a fever, the germs of which are driven from afar, takes possession of our lives and is increasingly deeper and glowing in it"

[1] „Es ist ein wunderlicher Vorgang, wie die Phantasie gleich einem Fieber, dessen Keime von weither getrieben werden, von unserem Leben Besitz ergreift und immer tiefer und glühender sich in ihm einnistet.“
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These dictionary examples can include historical and less common uses.

[1] "In his aesthetics, the imagination always had the primary"

[1] „Zwar hatte in seiner Ästhetik immer die Phantasie das Primat.“

Declension

1 Singular Plural
Nominativ die Phantasie die Phantasien
Genitiv der Phantasie der Phantasien
Dativ der Phantasie den Phantasien
Akkusativ die Phantasie die Phantasien

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