Why is it die Ponte?

Ponte 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] Rheinisch: Width ferry

[1] rheinisch: breite Fähre

Examples

[1] "But also the sideways, to which the steel cable of the Ponte (ferry) was previously attached, are still"

[1] „Aber auch die Fährtürme, an denen früher das Stahlseil der Ponte (Fähre) befestigt war, stehen noch.“

Declension

1 Singular Plural
Nominativ die Ponte die Ponten
Genitiv der Ponte der Ponten
Dativ der Ponte den Ponten
Akkusativ die Ponte die Ponten

Pronunciation

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