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.
In a sentence
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Je lis l'étiquette.
I read the label. -
Lis attentivement l'étiquette.
Read the label carefully. -
C'est écrit sur l'étiquette.
It's written on the label.
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 « 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.