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The article for

Stagnation

die Stagnation

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

Plural
die Stagnationen

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Why is it die Stagnation?

Stagnation is a compound noun, and German compounds take the article of their last word: die Nation. So it’s die Stagnation.

Sense 1
die

Meaning

[1] state in which no growth, growth, increase (more) takes place

[1] Zustand, in dem kein Zuwachs, Wachstum, Anstieg (mehr) stattfindet

Examples

[1] Due to the lack of demand, there was a stagnation of the paragraphs

[1] Aufgrund der mangelnden Nachfrage kam es zu einer Stagnation der Absätze.

[1] The course of the discussion is subject to an increasing stagnation.

[1] Der Diskussionsverlauf unterliegt aufgrund festgefahrender Meinungen einer zunehmenden Stagnation.
More source examples (1)

These dictionary examples can include historical and less common uses.

[1] "Apart from a short post -war boom, Great Britain experienced a stagnation of the traditional industries of the textile industry, coal mining or the ship building in the 1920s"

[1] „Von einem kurzen Nachkriegsboom abgesehen, erlebte Großbritannien in den 20er Jahren eine Stagnation der traditionellen Branchen der Textilindustrie, des Kohlenbergbaus oder des Schiffbaus.“

Declension

1 Singular Plural
Nominativ die Stagnation die Stagnationen
Genitiv der Stagnation der Stagnationen
Dativ der Stagnation den Stagnationen
Akkusativ die Stagnation die Stagnationen

Pronunciation

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