Why is it die Courage?
Courage ends in -age, and almost all nouns ending in -age are feminine: in a German dictionary, 90% of them take die.
All nouns ending in -age die
Meaning
Examples
[1] In such a situation you also have to show Courage
[1] In so einer Situation muss man auch Courage zeigen.
[1] At the sight of his opponent, he lost the Courageee
[1] Beim Anblick seines Gegners verlor er die Courage.
More source examples (1)
These dictionary examples can include historical and less common uses.
[1] "This objection has been circulating since the terror of the Paris Welfare Committee had many German writers and scholars about their own courage so frightened that they also mentally returned to the order that they had never been politically questioned anyway"
[1] „Dieser Einwand kursierte, seit der Terror des Pariser Wohlfahrtsausschusses viele deutsche Schriftsteller und Gelehrte über ihre eigene Courage hatte so erschrecken lassen, dass sie auch mental wieder zu jener Ordnung zurückkehrten, die von ihnen politisch ohnehin nie infrage gestellt worden war.“
Declension
| 1 | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominativ | die Courage | — |
| Genitiv | der Courage | — |
| Dativ | der Courage | — |
| Akkusativ | die Courage | — |
Pronunciation
Dictionary entries include material from Wiktionary. Wiktionary