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The article for

Stillstand

der Stillstand

Stillstand is a masculine German noun. Its article is der.

Plural
die Stillstände

Learn the noun together with its article. See the article rules.

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Why is it der Stillstand?

Stillstand ends in -and, but that ending doesn’t settle the article: in a German dictionary, 52% of -and nouns take das, 41% take der, and 7% take die. So learn it with its article: der Stillstand.

Which endings you can rely on
Sense 1
der

Meaning

[1] End of a movement, a process/process

[1] Ende einer Bewegung, eines Prozesses/Vorgangs

Examples

[1] Due to the damage to the facilities, the production of production occurred

[1] Wegen der Schäden an den Anlagen kam es zu einem Stillstand der Produktion.

[1] "In fact, the train had come to a standstill after just a few hundred meters, so that the woman had left her book"

[1] „Tatsächlich war der Zug schon nach wenigen hundert Metern wieder zum Stillstand gekommen, so daß die Frau ihr Buch hatte sinken lassen.“
More source examples (1)

These dictionary examples can include historical and less common uses.

[1] "He had primarily ensured that the strong bleeding came to a standstill from the thigh of the half -dead, and then stabilized the broken right forearm"

[1] „In erster Linie hatte er dafür gesorgt, dass die starke Blutung aus dem Oberschenkel des Halbtoten zum Stillstand kam, und dann den gebrochenen rechten Unterarm stabilisiert.“

Declension

1 Singular Plural
Nominativ der Stillstand die Stillstände
Genitiv des Stillstandes des Stillstands der Stillstände
Dativ dem Stillstand dem Stillstande den Stillständen
Akkusativ den Stillstand die Stillstände

Pronunciation

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