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Meet die Armee

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All 3 meanings

  1. army (large tactical contingent consisting of several divisions)
  2. military, a country’s armed forces as a whole; particularly of countries where a cognate term is commonly used in this sense, e.g. France
  3. (chiefly archaic) army, ground forces; now only of countries where a cognate term is commonly used in this sense, e.g. the U.S.

Meanings from Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Forms

How the article changes

For die Armee, 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 Armeen

Examples

  1. 1
    Die große Armee schützt das Land.The large army protects the country.Nominative · subjectPractise „groß“ →
  2. 2
    Er braucht eine neue Armee.He needs a new army.Accusative · brauchenPractise „neu“ →
  3. 3
    Die Regierung hilft der deutschen Armee.The government helps the German army.Dative · helfenPractise „deutsch“ →
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