Is « étiquette » masculine or feminine?
« étiquette » is feminine. You say l'étiquette.
Article forms
| With the definite article | l'étiquette |
| With the indefinite article | une étiquette |
| With the partitive article | de l'étiquette |
Plural
The plural is étiquettes (les étiquettes). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.
Why the gender
étiquette ends in
-ette. Nouns ending in
-ette are usually feminine,
so étiquette 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 « étiquette » masculine or feminine?
« étiquette » is feminine. You say l'étiquette.
« l'étiquette » hides the gender. Is « étiquette » masculine or feminine?
It is feminine. The article shortens to « l'étiquette » for both genders, but you say une étiquette, not un étiquette, and adjectives take the feminine form.
Check another word, or read the complete guide to French noun gender.