Why is it die Habe?

Habe 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] What you have

[1] das, was man besitzt

Examples

[1] Nomads have their whole always nearby

[1] Nomaden haben ihre ganze Habe immer in der Nähe.

[1] "Rudolph Lehmberg had started to set up the exact list of the lost having in the house of the widow Niebert"

[1] „Im Hause der Witwe Niebert hatte Rudolph Lehmberg begonnen, genaue Liste der verlorenen Habe aufzustellen.“

Declension

1 Singular Plural
Nominativ die Habe —
Genitiv der Habe —
Dativ der Habe —
Akkusativ die Habe —

Pronunciation

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