Why is it die Juristin?

Juristin ends in -in, and most nouns ending in -in are feminine: in a German dictionary, 88% of them take die.

All nouns ending in -in
Sense 1
die

Meaning

[1] Female person who studied law

[1] weibliche Person, die Jura studiert hat

Examples

[1] "The law studies had been the fulfillment of her father Andrew had also had ambitions in this direction, but she herself had never considered becoming a lawyer."

[1] „Das Jurastudium war die Erfüllung ihres Vaters gewesen. Andrew hatte ebenfalls Ambitionen in dieser Richtung gehabt, sie selbst hatte jedoch nie in Erwägung gezogen, Juristin zu werden.“

[1] "She started studying art history, then changed and became a lawyer"

[1] „Sie begann ein Studium der Kunstgeschichte, wechselte dann und wurde Juristin.“

Declension

1 Singular Plural
Nominativ die Juristin die Juristinnen
Genitiv der Juristin der Juristinnen
Dativ der Juristin den Juristinnen
Akkusativ die Juristin die Juristinnen

Pronunciation

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