Is « émission » masculine or feminine?

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

Article forms

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

Plural

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

Why the gender

émission ends in -sion. Nouns ending in -sion are usually feminine, so émission 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 « émission » masculine or feminine?

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

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

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


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