Why is it die Zerrissenheit?
Zerrissenheit ends in -heit, and nouns ending in -heit are feminine: in a German dictionary, 99% of them take die.
All nouns ending in -heit die
Meaning
Examples
[1] In many of his novels, Kafka addresses the tornness of the individual
[1] In vielen seiner Romane thematisiert Kafka die Zerrissenheit des Individuums.
Declension
| 1 | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominativ | die Zerrissenheit | — |
| Genitiv | der Zerrissenheit | — |
| Dativ | der Zerrissenheit | — |
| Akkusativ | die Zerrissenheit | — |
Pronunciation
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