Is « évacuation » masculine or feminine?

« évacuation » is feminine. You say l'évacuation.

Article forms

With the definite article l'évacuation
With the indefinite article une évacuation
With the partitive article de l'évacuation

Plural

The plural is évacuations (les évacuations). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.

Why the gender

évacuation ends in -tion. Nouns ending in -tion are usually feminine, so évacuation 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 « évacuation » masculine or feminine?

« évacuation » is feminine. You say l'évacuation.

« l'évacuation » hides the gender. Is « évacuation » masculine or feminine?

It is feminine. The article shortens to « l'évacuation » for both genders, but you say une évacuation, not un évacuation, and adjectives take the feminine form.


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