Is « académie » masculine or feminine?
« académie » is feminine. You say l'académie.
Article forms
| With the definite article | l'académie |
| With the indefinite article | une académie |
| With the partitive article | de l'académie |
Plural
The plural is académies (les académies). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.
Why the gender
académie ends in
-ie. Nouns ending in
-ie are usually feminine,
so académie follows the pattern.
The full rules by ending cover every common
suffix.
In a sentence
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Ziri est entré à l'académie.
Ziri walked into the academy. -
C'est le moment de créer une académie kabyle.
It's time to create a Kabyle academy. -
Ce mot est proscrit par l'Académie française.
That word is proscribed by the French Academy.
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 « académie » masculine or feminine?
« académie » is feminine. You say l'académie.
« l'académie » hides the gender. Is « académie » masculine or feminine?
It is feminine. The article shortens to « l'académie » for both genders, but you say une académie, not un académie, and adjectives take the feminine form.
Check another word, or read the complete guide to French noun gender.