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Meet die Aktion

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All 5 meanings

  1. (countable) operation, campaign, measure, organized course of action
  2. (countable, specifically) sales campaign
  3. (countable) act, deed, typically unusual, often negative
  4. (usually uncountable, mostly with in or außer) action, activity
  5. (usually uncountable, often juxtaposed with Reaktion) action, impulse

Meanings from Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Forms

How the article changes

For die Aktion, use the coloured columns: feminine and plural.

der, die, das
Casemasculinefeminineneuterplural
nominativederdiedasdie
accusativedendiedasdie
dativedemderdemden
ein, kein, mein: ein has no plural. mein, dein, sein, ihr, unser… end like kein.
Casemasculinefeminineneuterplural
nominativeeineineeinkeine
accusativeeineneineeinkeine
dativeeinemeinereinemkeinen

Plural die Aktionen

Nouns ending in -ung, -heit, -keit, -schaft, -ion, -tät, -ik, -ei, -ur, -enz and -anz are feminine.

Examples

  1. 1
    Die politische Aktion beginnt morgen.The political campaign starts tomorrow.Nominative · subjectPractise „politisch“ →
  2. 2
    Wir unterstützen die gemeinsame Aktion.We support the joint campaign.Accusative · unterstützenPractise „gemeinsam“ →
  3. 3
    Wir helfen Anna bei ihrer sozialen Aktion.We help Anna with her social campaign.Dative · beiPractise „sozial“ →
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