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der, die oder das Metzgerei?

die Metzgerei

It's die Metzgerei. Metzgerei is feminine, plural die Metzgereien.

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Plural
die Metzgereien
Meaning
butcher's
In our course
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Shopping & money

Example

  • In der Metzgerei kaufe ich Hähnchen.

    At the butcher's I buy chicken.

Why die?

-ei die

Metzgerei

Usually 85.9% of the 135 common nouns ending in -ei take die.

-ei is feminine: shops and places (die Bäckerei), and die Polizei.

Exceptions der Schrei, das Weichei, der Brei, der Papagei