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German nouns ending in -thek
Almost all nouns ending in -thek are feminine: in a German dictionary, 96% of them take die.
Counted across nouns with exactly one article, leaving out compounds, which follow their last word instead.
Common nouns ending in -thek
- dieBibliothek library
- dieDiskothek nightclub, disco
- dieHypothek mortgage, home loan
- dieMediathek media library
- dieStadtbibliothek city library
Exceptions
These nouns end in -thek but don’t take die. Often -thek isn’t a suffix here at all, just part of the word’s stem. Most common first.
derSchulthek