German nouns ending in -ur

-ur is feminine: die Temperatur, die Natur.

Say the article and the noun together. The ending is a hint, not a word.

On the 92 common nouns with this ending in the frequency list behind these rules, 91.3% take die. We label that “almost always”. The count is from german-nouns (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0). It is not an exam pass rate.

Exceptions in this rule

• der Schwur
• das Abitur

Learn the exceptions as pairs. The ending is still worth using for every other noun.

Examples the course uses

• die Temperatur
• die Tastatur
• die Natur

In this dictionary

• der Ingenieur
• die Tastatur
• die Temperatur

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