Is « émotion » masculine or feminine?

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

Article forms

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

Plural

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

Why the gender

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

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

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

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


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