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The article for

Stake

die Stake

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

Plural
die Staken

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Why is it die Stake?

Stake 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] Long pole to move/control boats by selling out the river floor

[1] lange Stange zum Bewegen/Steuern von Booten durch Abstoßen von Flussboden

[2] Support bar in construction

[2] Stützstange im Bauwesen

Examples

[1] "In the afternoon the diesel engine jumped, a black cloud stroked over the pin mass, and when the shipmen pushed the long -stretched wooden body with their staks from the shore, I noticed an excited tingling in the belly" "

[1] „Am Nachmittag sprang der Dieselmotor an, eine schwarze Wolke strich über die Pinasse hinweg, und als die Schiffsleute den lang gestreckten hölzernen Körper mit ihren Staken vom Ufer abdrückten, bemerkte ich ein erregtes Kribbeln im Bauch.“

Declension

1 Singular Plural
Nominativ die Stake die Staken
Genitiv der Stake der Staken
Dativ der Stake den Staken
Akkusativ die Stake die Staken

Pronunciation

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