Why is it die Pagode?

Pagode 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] East Asia: Buddhist building, Vietnam: Tempel facility

[1] Ost-Asien: buddhistisches Bauwerk, Vietnam: Tempel-Anlage

Examples

[1] Most pagodas can be found in China and Japanese

[1] Die meisten Pagoden findet man in China und Japan.

Declension

1 Singular Plural
Nominativ die Pagode die Pagoden
Genitiv der Pagode der Pagoden
Dativ der Pagode den Pagoden
Akkusativ die Pagode die Pagoden

Pronunciation

In context

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