Is « agression » masculine or feminine?

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

Article forms

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

Plural

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

Why the gender

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

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

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

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


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