German noun endings

-tion, -sion

Nouns ending in -tion or -sion are always die.

Built on a verb — the action, or what it produced: informieren die Information.The words came from Latin.

Examples

  • die Information
  • die Situation
  • die Station
  • die Position
  • die Explosion
  • die Diskussion
  • die Option
  • die Kommunikation

Plural

  • die Information die Informationen

Endings that take die