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.
In a sentence
-
C'est à l'étude.
That's under consideration. -
Arrêtez les études !
Stop studying! -
L'étude est partiale.
The study is biased.
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 « 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.
Check another word, or read the complete guide to French noun gender.