Why is it die Resignation?
Resignation ends in -ion, and almost all nouns ending in -ion are feminine: in a German dictionary, 94% of them take die.
All nouns ending in -ionMeaning
[1] Keeping of the waiver of your own activities under the impression of the hopelessness of being able to realize your own goals
[1] Haltung des Verzichts auf eigene Aktivitäten unter dem Eindruck der Aussichtslosigkeit, eigene Ziele verwirklichen zu können[2] Outdated: "Voluntary resignation of an office"
[2] veraltet: „freiwillige Niederlegung eines Amtes“Examples
[1] Our warriors have forced the enemy to resign
[1] Unsere Krieger haben den Feind zur Resignation gezwungen.
[1] "In a kind of desperate resignation, however, the Commercial Council decided to let the worst endure even, without further action"
[1] „In einer Art von verzweifelter Resignation schien aber der Kommerzienrat entschlossen, auch das Schlimmste über sich ergehen zu lassen, ohne weiter dagegen anzumurren.“
More source examples (4)
These dictionary examples can include historical and less common uses.
[1] "It was the resignation of a people who had been incapacitated by the millennia of their own religion, by centuries by foreign rule"
[1] „Es war die Resignation eines Volkes, das durch die Jahrtausende von der eigenen Religion, durch Jahrhunderte von fremder Herrschaft entmündigt worden war.“
[1] "When Lassehn enters the basement with the Wiegands, the silence of the resignation is still spread over the room"
[1] „Als Lassehn mit den Wiegands den Keller betritt, ist immer noch das Schweigen der Resignation über den Raum verbreitet.“
[1] "Darkness and resignation were in their voice"
[1] „Finsternis und Resignation lagen in ihrer Stimme.“
[2] His resignation met all of us very much
[2] Seine Resignation hat uns alle sehr getroffen.
Declension
| 1 | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominativ | die Resignation | die Resignationen |
| Genitiv | der Resignation | der Resignationen |
| Dativ | der Resignation | den Resignationen |
| Akkusativ | die Resignation | die Resignationen |
Pronunciation
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