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 die
Meaning
[1] What you have
[1] das, was man besitztExamples
[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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