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The article for

Slowakei

die Slowakei

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

Plural
no plural
English
Slovakia
Topic
Places

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Why is it die Slowakei?

Slowakei ends in -ei, and almost all nouns ending in -ei are feminine: in a German dictionary, 91% of them take die.

All nouns ending in -ei
Sense 1
die

Meaning

[1] Land in Central Europe

[1] Land in Mitteleuropa

Examples

[1] We go on vacation in the Slovakia

[1] Wir machen Urlaub in der Slowakei.

[1] Pressburg is the capital of Slovakia

[1] Pressburg ist die Hauptstadt der Slowakei.
More source examples (2)

These dictionary examples can include historical and less common uses.

[1] "The lecturer ... is no unknown person in Slovakia: ..."

[1] „Der Vortragende … ist in der Slowakei keine unbekannte Person:…“

[1] "It is above all two great historical knots that Czechs and Germans - there was no question of the Slovaks until the 20 -sea, and what was later called Slovakia was rushed against each other until 1918."

[1] „Es sind vor allem zwei große geschichtliche Verknotungen, die Tschechen und Deutsche – von den Slowaken war bis ins 20. Jahrhundert hinein keine Rede, und was man später die Slowakei nannte, hieß bis 1918 Oberungarn – gegeneinander hetzten.“

Declension

1 Singular Plural
Nominativ die Slowakei —
Genitiv der Slowakei —
Dativ der Slowakei —
Akkusativ die Slowakei —

Pronunciation

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