Why is it das Cottage?
Cottage ends in -age. Most nouns with this ending are feminine (90% take die), but Cottage is an exception: das Cottage.
The other -age exceptions das
Meaning
Examples
[1] "A cottage in which a famous poet was born, they had been converted into a museum of her life"
[1] „Ein Cottage, in dem eine berühmte Dichterin geboren worden war, hatte man zu einem Museum ihres Lebens umgewandelt.“
[2] "In 1961 the Cottage comprised 84.27 hectares of Nettobauland with 6644 residents"
[2] „Das Cottage umfasste 1961 84,27 Hektar Nettobauland mit 6644 Bewohnern.“
More source examples (1)
These dictionary examples can include historical and less common uses.
[2] "In itself, the Ottakringer Cottage at the foot of the Wilhelminenberg is just as tranquil as in other bacon agencies in Vienna: Except for one or the other heurigen, the sidewalks are folded up here as soon as the darkness breaks out"
[2] „An sich geht es in der Ottakringer Cottage am Fuß des Wilhelminenbergs ähnlich beschaulich zu wie in anderen Speckgürtellagen Wiens: Bis auf den einen oder anderen Heurigen werden hier die Trottoirs raufgeklappt, sobald die Dunkelheit hereinbricht.“
Declension
| 1 | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominativ | das Cottage | die Cottages |
| Genitiv | des Cottage | der Cottages |
| Dativ | dem Cottage | den Cottages |
| Akkusativ | das Cottage | die Cottages |
Pronunciation
Dictionary entries include material from Wiktionary. Wiktionary