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