Why is it die Allergie?
Allergie ends in -ie, and nouns ending in -ie are feminine: in a German dictionary, 98% of them take die.
All nouns ending in -ieMeaning
[1] Medicine: violent immune response to normally harmless substances or environmental substances
[1] Medizin: heftige Immunreaktion auf normalerweise harmlose Substanzen oder UmweltstoffeExamples
[1] The most common allergy is the hay fever
[1] Die verbreitetste Allergie ist der Heuschnupfen.
[1] "Women are therefore more likely to suffer from allergies and autoimmune diseases - on the thyroid disease of the Basedow's disease, for example, in which their own antibodies are directed against thyroid tissue, women develop about eight times more often than men" "
[1] „Frauen leiden daher häufiger an Allergien und an Autoimmunerkrankungen – an der Schilddrüsenerkrankung Morbus Basedow etwa, bei der sich eigene Antikörper gegen Schilddrüsengewebe richten, erkranken Frauen etwa achtmal häufiger als Männer.“
More source examples (1)
These dictionary examples can include historical and less common uses.
[1] "Although only about three percent of all Germans have been shown to suffer from allergies, almost everyone now believes that it is allergic to something"
[1] „Obwohl nur etwa drei Prozent aller Bundesbürger nachweislich an Allergien leiden, glaubt inzwischen fast jeder, gegen irgendetwas allergisch zu sein.“
Declension
| 1 | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominativ | die Allergie | die Allergien |
| Genitiv | der Allergie | der Allergien |
| Dativ | der Allergie | den Allergien |
| Akkusativ | die Allergie | die Allergien |
Pronunciation
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