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The article for

Tortur

die Tortur

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

Plural
die Torturen

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Why is it die Tortur?

Tortur ends in -tur, and almost all nouns ending in -tur are feminine: in a German dictionary, 95% of them take die.

All nouns ending in -tur
Sense 1
die

Meaning

[1] earlier: torture

[1] früher: Folter

[2] Sorry

[2] Leid

Examples

[1] Under the tortur he confessed a murder that he hadn't committed

[1] Unter der Tortur gestand er einen Mord, den er nicht begangen hatte.

[1] "I already believed that the pain of the torture was feeling, the hair struggled on my head, the shower of terror ran through my limbs no longer obeyed my will, but only shrugged in cramps"

[1] „Ich glaubte schon die Schmerzen der Tortur zu fühlen, die Haare sträubten sich auf meinem Kopf, der Schauer des Schreckens lief durch meine Glieder; sie gehorchten nicht mehr meinem Willen, sondern zuckten nur noch in Krämpfen.“
More source examples (1)

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[2] The bus ride was a Torturä

[2] Die Busfahrt war eine Tortur.

Declension

1 Singular Plural
Nominativ die Tortur die Torturen
Genitiv der Tortur der Torturen
Dativ der Tortur den Torturen
Akkusativ die Tortur die Torturen

Pronunciation

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