Why is it die Airline?
Airline ends in -ine, and almost all nouns ending in -ine are feminine: in a German dictionary, 93% of them take die.
All nouns ending in -ine die
Meaning
[1] Company that promotes passengers by plane
[1] Unternehmen, das Passagiere per Flugzeug befördertExamples
[1] The airline is in the critic due to insufficient safety standards
[1] Die Airline steht wegen nicht ausreichender Sicherheitsstandards in der Kritik.
Declension
| 1 | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominativ | die Airline | die Airlines |
| Genitiv | der Airline | der Airlines |
| Dativ | der Airline | den Airlines |
| Akkusativ | die Airline | die Airlines |
Pronunciation
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