Vrouwelijk

-age

(Engels)

Nominal suffix, rarely productive, mostly restricted to borrowings from French.

Uitgesproken als (IPA)
/ˈaːʒə/
Etymologie (Engels)

In summary

Borrowed from French -age m. Feminised by analogy with the majority of German words in -e, perhaps also with other suffixes of abstract nouns such as -heit and -ung.

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