Is « écurie » masculine or feminine?

« écurie » is feminine. You say l'écurie.

Article forms

With the definite article l'écurie
With the indefinite article une écurie
With the partitive article de l'écurie

Plural

The plural is écuries (les écuries). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.

Why the gender

écurie ends in -ie. Nouns ending in -ie are usually feminine, so écurie follows the pattern. The full rules by ending cover every common suffix.

Related words

Other common nouns that end the same way:

Common questions

Is « écurie » masculine or feminine?

« écurie » is feminine. You say l'écurie.

« l'écurie » hides the gender. Is « écurie » masculine or feminine?

It is feminine. The article shortens to « l'écurie » for both genders, but you say une écurie, not un écurie, and adjectives take the feminine form.


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