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The article for

Spionage

die Spionage

Spionage is a feminine German noun. Its article is die.

Plural
no plural

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Why is it die Spionage?

Spionage ends in -age, and almost all nouns ending in -age are feminine: in a German dictionary, 90% of them take die.

All nouns ending in -age
Sense 1
die

Meaning

[1] Procurement of secret information from foreign organizations, states or the like. This meaning must be revised - comment: can be improved (~ supplemented), if necessary

[1] Beschaffung von geheimen Informationen von fremdem Organisationen, Staaten oder dergleichen • Diese Bedeutungsangabe muss überarbeitet werden. — Kommentar: kann gerne verbessert (~ergänzt) werden, falls nötig

Examples

[1] "In Turin, the world -famous Italian parachutist Giorgio Rinaldi is arrested under the suspicion of the espionage"

[1] „In Turin wird der weltberühmte italienische Fallschirmspringer Giorgio Rinaldi unter dem Verdacht der Spionage festgenommen.“

Declension

1 Singular Plural
Nominativ die Spionage —
Genitiv der Spionage —
Dativ der Spionage —
Akkusativ die Spionage —

Pronunciation

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