Breakdown of Diese Angewohnheit ist schlecht für meine Gesundheit.
Questions & Answers about Diese Angewohnheit ist schlecht für meine Gesundheit.
Diese is the demonstrative pronoun/adjective “this/that” and it has to agree with the noun in gender, number, and case.
- Angewohnheit is:
- gender: feminine
- number: singular
- case: nominative (it’s the subject of the sentence)
The nominative singular feminine form of dies- is diese.
Other forms (for comparison):
- dieser = masculine nominative singular (e.g. dieser Mann)
- dieses = neuter nominative singular (e.g. dieses Kind), or genitive masculine/neuter
So with Angewohnheit you must say diese Angewohnheit in this sentence.
Angewohnheit is:
- gender: feminine
- case: nominative
- number: singular
How to see this:
- It’s the subject of the sentence (the thing that “is bad”), so it is in the nominative case.
- The form diese (not dieser/dieses) shows that the noun it refers to is feminine nominative singular.
- In dictionaries, Angewohnheit is listed as die Angewohnheit – that die is the nominative singular article for feminine nouns.
So the phrase diese Angewohnheit is a feminine nominative singular subject.