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The article for

Speiche

die Speiche

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

Plural
die Speichen
English
radius
Topic
Body

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Why is it die Speiche?

Speiche 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] Technology: Part of a wheel, struts from the hub to the rim

[1] Technik: Teil eines Rades, Strebe von der Nabe zur Felge

[2] Anatomy: one of the two forearm bones

[2] Anatomie: einer der beiden Unterarmknochen

Examples

[1] "Bad and muddy paths on which the postillion - and sometimes the fellow travelers - had to reach into the spokes, repairs, weather capers and robberies made the arrival times unpredictable" "

[1] „Schlechte und schlammige Wege, auf denen der Postillion - und manchmal auch die Mitreisenden - in die Speichen greifen mussten, Reparaturen, Wetterkapriolen und Raubüberfälle machten die Ankunftszeiten unberechenbar.“

[2] In the accident, he rose the spoke on the left arm

[2] Bei dem Unfall hat er sich die Speiche am linken Arm angebrochen.

Declension

1 Singular Plural
Nominativ die Speiche die Speichen
Genitiv der Speiche der Speichen
Dativ der Speiche den Speichen
Akkusativ die Speiche die Speichen

Pronunciation

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