-age die
Unterlage
Almost always 94.9% of the 99 common nouns ending in -age take die.
-age is feminine. These words come from French: die Garage, die Etage.
Exceptions das Image, das Cottage
der, die oder das Unterlage?
die Unterlage
It's die Unterlage. Unterlage is feminine, plural die Unterlagen.
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- Plural
- die Unterlagen
- Meaning
- document
- In our course
- A1
- Offices & forms
Example
Welche Unterlagen brauche ich?
Which documents do I need?
Why die?
Compound noun
Unterlage die
The last part decides the article: die Lage, so die Unterlage.