-in die
Kollegin
Always 99.4% of the 471 common nouns ending in -in take die.
Add -in to a man's job or nationality and you get a woman: der Lehrer, die Lehrerin. Always feminine.
Exceptions der Muffin
der, die oder das Kollegin?
die Kollegin
It's die Kollegin. Kollegin is feminine, plural die Kolleginnen.
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- Plural
- die Kolleginnen
- Meaning
- colleague (f)
- In our course
- A1
- Work & jobs · also A2, B1, B2, C1, C2
Example
Meine Kollegin kommt aus Polen.
My colleague is from Poland.
Die Kollegin ist neu.
The colleague is new.