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The article for

Davos

(das) Davos

Davos is a proper noun and usually takes no article. When one is needed it is das.

Learn the noun together with its article: See the article rules.

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Meaning

[1] A community in the Swiss canton of Graubünden

[1] eine Gemeinde im schweizerischen Kanton Graubünden

[2] A city of the same name in [1]

[2] eine gleichnamige Stadt in [1]

Examples

[1, 2] Thomas Mann also made Davos famous in the German -speaking world with his novel the Magic Mountain

[1, 2] Thomas Mann machte Davos mit seinem Roman Der Zauberberg auch in der deutschsprachigen Welt berühmt.

In 1936 the Jewish medical student David Frankfurter shot in Davos the NSDAP national group leader of Switzerland Wilhelm Gustloffe

[2] 1936 erschoss der jüdische Medizinstudent David Frankfurter in Davos den NSDAP-Landesgruppenleiter der Schweiz Wilhelm Gustloff.
Grammar note

The article is needed if "Davos" in a certain quality, at a certain point in time or period as a subject or object in the sentence, is otherwise, i.e. usually, no article is used.

Declension

1 Singular Plural
Nominativ (das) Davos —
Genitiv (des Davos) Davos’ —
Dativ (dem) Davos —
Akkusativ (das) Davos —

Pronunciation

In context

[1] Davos im Sommer
[1] Davos im Sommer Wikimedia Commons

Related nouns

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