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The article for

Pirouette

die Pirouette

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

Plural
die Pirouetten

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Why is it die Pirouette?

Pirouette ends in -ette, and almost all nouns ending in -ette are feminine: in a German dictionary, 96% of them take die.

All nouns ending in -ette
Sense 1
die

Meaning

[1] Dance, figure skating: a centered simple or multiple quick rotation around your own body of the body

[1] Tanz, Eiskunstlauf: eine zentrierte einfache oder mehrfache schnelle Drehung um die eigene Körperhochachse

[2] Art arguments: riding figure in which a turn of the horse is carried out around the hindquarters

[2] Kunstreiten: Reitfigur, bei der eine Wendung des Pferdes um die Hinterhand vollführt wird

Examples

[1] The young figure skaters slide slightly over the ice and artfully turn a pirouettee

[1] Die jungen Eiskunstläuferinnen gleiten leicht übers Eis und drehen kunstvoll eine Pirouette.

[1] "She made air jumps, pirouettes, caprioles, legs, briefly all antics of a ballet rattling"

[1] „Sie machte Luftsprünge, Pirouetten, Kapriolen, Beinschläge, kurz alle Possen einer Ballettratte.“

Declension

1 Singular Plural
Nominativ die Pirouette die Pirouetten
Genitiv der Pirouette der Pirouetten
Dativ der Pirouette den Pirouetten
Akkusativ die Pirouette die Pirouetten

Pronunciation

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