Is « admission » masculine or feminine?

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

Article forms

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

Plural

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

Why the gender

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

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

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

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


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