Is « accueil » masculine or feminine?

« accueil » is masculine. You say l'accueil.

Article forms

With the definite article l'accueil
With the indefinite article un accueil
With the partitive article de l'accueil

Plural

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

Why the gender

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

« accueil » is masculine. You say l'accueil.

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

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


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