Why is it die Nurse?

Nurse 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] Octed: female person who looks after the children in a family

[1] veraltet: weibliche Person, die in einer Familie die Kinder betreut

Examples

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Declension

1 Singular Plural 1 Plural 2
Nominativ die Nurse die Nurses die Nursen
Genitiv der Nurse der Nurses der Nursen
Dativ der Nurse den Nurses den Nursen
Akkusativ die Nurse die Nurses die Nursen

Pronunciation

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