Why is it die Fernreise?

Fernreise ends in -e, and most nouns ending in -e are feminine: in a German dictionary, 79% of them take die.

All nouns ending in -e
Sense 1
die

Meaning

[1] trip to the distance, far away from home

[1] Reise in die Ferne, weit weg von der Heimat

Examples

[1] "Only a long -distance trip shows you again what you have in Germany"

[1] „Erst eine Fernreise führt einem wieder vor Augen, was man so an Deutschland hat.“

Declension

1 Singular Plural
Nominativ die Fernreise die Fernreisen
Genitiv der Fernreise der Fernreisen
Dativ der Fernreise den Fernreisen
Akkusativ die Fernreise die Fernreisen

Pronunciation

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