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The article for

Schelte

die Schelte

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

Plural
die Schelten

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Why is it die Schelte?

Schelte 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] According to the blame, reprimand (lifted in Austria)

[1] laut geäußerter Tadel, Zurechtweisung (in Österreich gehoben)

Examples

[1] He got scold

[1] Er bekam Schelte vom Vater.

[1] "In the first word member means professional diet, a fox at the wrong time put on his young fox wisdom, so he pulled the scolding at a seam"

[1] „Fach als erstes Wortglied bedeutet Fachgelehrsamkeit; brachte ein Fuchs zur Unzeit seine junge Fuchsweisheit an, so zog er sich die Schelte Fachsimpel zu.“
More source examples (1)

These dictionary examples can include historical and less common uses.

[1] "I was half an hour late because I had got lost and like a school boy I expected the deserved scent"

[1] „Ich war eine halbe Stunde zu spät, weil ich mich verlaufen hatte, und wie ein Schuljunge erwartete ich die verdiente Schelte.“

Declension

1 Singular Plural
Nominativ die Schelte die Schelten
Genitiv der Schelte der Schelten
Dativ der Schelte den Schelten
Akkusativ die Schelte die Schelten

Pronunciation

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