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.
In a sentence
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La colère est une émotion.
Anger is an emotion. -
Tom a repris le contrôle de ses émotions.
Tom got a grip on his emotions. -
Ce livre couvre tout le spectre des émotions.
This book runs the gamut of emotions.
Example sentences from Tatoeba, used under CC BY 2.0 FR. Each links to its source sentence.
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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