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.
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.