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The article for

Slice

der Slice

Slice is a masculine German noun. Its article is der.

Plural
die Slices

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Why is it der Slice?

Slice ends in -e. Most nouns with this ending are feminine (79% take die), but Slice is an exception: der Slice.

The other -e exceptions
Sense 1
der

Meaning

[1] Tennis, table tennis: Ball beaten with backward dralings

[1] Tennis, Tischtennis: mit Rückwärtsdrall geschlagener Ball

[2] Golf: Ball that unintentionally changes its direction of flight to the right after a straight start phase

[2] Golf: Ball, der nach einer geraden Startphase ungewollt seine Flugrichtung zur rechten Seite ändert

Examples

[1] "I would like to improve my tennis game, bring in more variability with stops and slice, make individual blows more powerful"

[1] „Ich möchte mein Tennisspiel verbessern, mit Stopps und Slice mehr Variabilität reinbringen, einzelne Schläge stärker machen.“

[2]

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Declension

1 Singular Plural
Nominativ der Slice die Slices
Genitiv des Slice der Slices
Dativ dem Slice den Slices
Akkusativ den Slice die Slices

Pronunciation

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