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The article for

Rippe

die Rippe

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

Plural
die Rippen
English
rib
Topic
Body

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Why is it die Rippe?

Rippe ends in -e, and most nouns ending in -e are feminine: in a German dictionary, 79% of them take die.

All nouns ending in -e
Sense 1
die

Meaning

[1] Anatomy: curved, elongated bone in the upper body of humans or animals, which is connected to the spine

[1] Anatomie: gebogener, länglicher Knochen im Oberkörper von Mensch oder Tier, der mit der Wirbelsäule verbunden ist

Examples

[1] The ribs protect the organs of the upper body

[1] Die Rippen schützen die Organe des Oberkörpers.

[1] "Recently [the 85-year-old American lawyer Ruth Bader] Ginsburg broken three ribs"

[1] „Vor kurzem hat sich [die 85-jährige amerikanische Juristin Ruth Bader] Ginsburg drei Rippen gebrochen.“
More source examples (3)

These dictionary examples can include historical and less common uses.

[1] "The jumping springs trapped his ribs"

[1] „Die Springfedern traktierten seine Rippen.“

[1] "My ribs sorted themselves down after every heartbeat"

[1] „Meine Rippen sortierten sich nach jedem Herzschlag neu.“

[1] "Konrad and his sister awaited me on the stairs under the glass roof, whose windows had been shot short and small last summer, so that the iron bars like the ribs of a withered and teased leaf looked"

[1] „Konrad und seine Schwester erwarteten mich auf der Treppe unter dem Glasdach, dessen Scheiben im letzten Sommer kurz und klein geschossen worden waren, so daß die Eisenstangen wie die Rippen eines welken und zerzausten Blattes aussahen.“

Declension

1 Singular Plural
Nominativ die Rippe die Rippen
Genitiv der Rippe der Rippen
Dativ der Rippe den Rippen
Akkusativ die Rippe die Rippen

Pronunciation

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