Why is it die Spätgotik?
Spätgotik ends in -ik, and almost all nouns ending in -ik are feminine: in a German dictionary, 93% of them take die.
All nouns ending in -ik die
Meaning
[1] Medieval architecture between 1350 and 1520
[1] mittelalterliche Baukunst zwischen 1350 und 1520Examples
[1] "With the wall paintings by Johannes Aquila and Janez Ljubljanski, the first significant testimonies of the visual arts were created in late Gothic"
[1] „Mit den Wandmalereien von Johannes Aquila und Janez Ljubljanski entstanden in der Spätgotik die ersten bedeutenden Zeugnisse der bildenden Kunst.“
[1] "In bourgeois residential construction, the half -timbered constructions and the proven formal language of late Gothic Treuä" were often remained "
[1] „Im bürgerlichen Wohnbau blieb man oft den Fachwerkkonstruktionen und der bewährten Formensprache der Spätgotik treu.“
Declension
| 1 | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominativ | die Spätgotik | — |
| Genitiv | der Spätgotik | — |
| Dativ | der Spätgotik | — |
| Akkusativ | die Spätgotik | — |
Pronunciation
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