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The article for

Subvention

die Subvention

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

Plural
die Subventionen
English
subsidy
Topic
Finance

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Why is it die Subvention?

Subvention ends in -ion, and almost all nouns ending in -ion are feminine: in a German dictionary, 94% of them take die.

All nouns ending in -ion
Sense 1
die

Meaning

[1] Economy, mostly plural: financial help without consideration, support with which state institutions support companies

[1] Wirtschaft, meist Plural: finanzielle Hilfe ohne Gegenleistung, mit der staatliche Institutionen Unternehmen unterstützen

Examples

[1] Are they for or against higher subsidies of the European Union for agricultural products

[1] Sind Sie für oder gegen höhere Subventionen der Europäischen Union für Agrarprodukte?

Declension

1 Singular Plural
Nominativ die Subvention die Subventionen
Genitiv der Subvention der Subventionen
Dativ der Subvention den Subventionen
Akkusativ die Subvention die Subventionen

Pronunciation

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