Is « évaluation » masculine or feminine?
« évaluation » is feminine. You say l'évaluation.
Article forms
| With the definite article | l'évaluation |
| With the indefinite article | une évaluation |
| With the partitive article | de l'évaluation |
Plural
The plural is évaluations (les évaluations). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.
Why the gender
évaluation ends in
-tion. Nouns ending in
-tion are usually feminine,
so évaluation follows the pattern.
The full rules by ending cover every common
suffix.
In a sentence
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L'évaluation est contestée.
The assessment is being contested. -
C'est une évaluation très injuste.
That's a very unfair assessment. -
Nous voulons une évaluation complète.
We want a complete evaluation.
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 « évaluation » masculine or feminine?
« évaluation » is feminine. You say l'évaluation.
« l'évaluation » hides the gender. Is « évaluation » masculine or feminine?
It is feminine. The article shortens to « l'évaluation » for both genders, but you say une évaluation, not un évaluation, and adjectives take the feminine form.
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