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Taxis

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

Plural
die Taxien

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

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Why is it die Taxis?

Taxis ends in -is, but that ending doesn’t settle the article: in a German dictionary, 61% of -is nouns take die, 28% take der, and 11% take das. So learn it with its article: die Taxis.

Which endings you can rely on
Sense 1
die

Meaning

[1] Biology: Free, directed movement of an organism along an environmental degree

[1] Biologie: freie, gerichtete Bewegung eines Organismus entlang eines Umweltgradienten

Examples

[1] The movement of sperm in the direction of the egg cell is a taxi

[1] Die Bewegung von Spermien in Richtung der Eizelle ist eine Taxis.

Declension

1 Singular Plural
Nominativ die Taxis die Taxien
Genitiv der Taxis der Taxien
Dativ der Taxis den Taxien
Akkusativ die Taxis die Taxien

Pronunciation

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