Why is it das Tennis?
Tennis ends in -nis, but that ending doesn’t settle the article: in a German dictionary, 66% of -nis nouns take das and 33% take die. So learn it with its article: das Tennis.
Which endings you can rely on das
Meaning
[1] Sporty ball game, which is played as a checkpiel with a tennis ball and a tennis racket per person
[1] sportliches Ballspiel, welches als Rückschlagspiel mit einem Tennisball und jeweils einem Tennisschläger pro Person gespielt wirdExamples
[1] "She carried very little shorts there all played tennis then - they did not really play, they only looked very good." [1]
[1] „Sie trug ganz kleine Shorts dabei. Alle haben damals Tennis gespielt – sie haben nicht wirklich gespielt, sie sahen nur sehr gut aus.“[1]
[1] "Tennis is so good for women of politicians and leading Catholics ." [2]
[1] „Tennis ist so gut für Frauen von Politikern und führenden Katholiken.“[2]
Declension
| 1 | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominativ | das Tennis | — |
| Genitiv | des Tennis | — |
| Dativ | dem Tennis | — |
| Akkusativ | das Tennis | — |
Pronunciation
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