Why is it die Glaubensfrage?
Glaubensfrage 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
[1] Question that affects the attitude towards religious content
[1] Frage, die die Einstellung zu religiösen Inhalten betrifftExamples
[1] In questions of faith, we were a real patchwork family: my mother was Muslim, my brother Catholic, I was Protestant, and my father was everything shit ""
[1] „In Glaubensfragen waren wir also eine echte Patchworkfamilie: Meine Mutter war Muslimin, mein Bruder Katholik, ich Protestant, und meinem Vater war alles scheißegal.“
Declension
| 1 | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominativ | die Glaubensfrage | die Glaubensfragen |
| Genitiv | der Glaubensfrage | der Glaubensfragen |
| Dativ | der Glaubensfrage | den Glaubensfragen |
| Akkusativ | die Glaubensfrage | die Glaubensfragen |
Pronunciation
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