Why is it die Stattlichkeit?
Stattlichkeit ends in -keit, and nouns ending in -keit are feminine: in a German dictionary, 100% of them take die.
All nouns ending in -keit die
Meaning
[1] Property to be stately
[1] Eigenschaft, stattlich zu seinExamples
[1] "If neither his impressive nor his perfection and nonchalance had touched her, it did this easy hesitation"
[1] „Wenn weder seine Stattlichkeit noch seine Vollkommenheit und Nonchalance sie berührt hätten, so tat es dieses leichte Zögern.“
Declension
| 1 | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominativ | die Stattlichkeit | — |
| Genitiv | der Stattlichkeit | — |
| Dativ | der Stattlichkeit | — |
| Akkusativ | die Stattlichkeit | — |
Pronunciation
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