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The article for

Ferien

die Ferien

Ferien is a plural-only German noun with no singular form, so its article is always die.

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Meaning

[1] School or working or semester-free period of a state institution, except for weekends and public holidays

[1] schul- oder arbeits- oder semesterfreie Zeit einer staatlichen Institution, ausgenommen die Wochenenden und Feiertage

[2] Vacation [2]

[2] Urlaub[2]

Examples

[1, 2] Everyone had vacation, only he had to work on

[1, 2] Alle hatten Ferien, nur er musste weiterarbeiten.

[1, 2] I go to the car

[1, 2] Ich gehe in die Ferien!

[1, 2] I have

[1, 2] Ich habe ab Montag Ferien!

[2] “Vacation is free time, vacation planned time employee, civil servants, chiefs have vacation, but children are vacationing, but this goes so far that students go on vacation, but their teachers on vacation. You take a vacation and then you make him. You just have a vacation. Vacation depends on the collective agreement and is planned, holidays depend on the mood and start aimlessly. ”

[2] „Ferien ist freie Zeit, Urlaub verplante Zeit. Angestellte, Beamte, Bauschlosser haben Urlaub, Kinder dagegen Ferien; ja, das geht so weit, dass Schüler in die Ferien fahren, ihre Lehrer aber in den Urlaub. Urlaub nimmt man sich und dann macht man ihn. Ferien hat man einfach. Urlaub ist abhängig vom Tarifvertrag und wird geplant, Ferien hängen von der Stimmung ab und beginnen ziellos.“
Grammar note

Contrary to the information in the reference bodies below, after the Duden, the word vacation is neither a female nor as it is actually, but as a plural tank without a grammatical gender

Declension

1 Singular Plural
Nominativ die Ferien
Genitiv der Ferien
Dativ den Ferien
Akkusativ die Ferien

Pronunciation

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