Is « antiquité » masculine or feminine?
« antiquité » is feminine. You say l'antiquité.
Article forms
| With the definite article | l'antiquité |
| With the indefinite article | une antiquité |
| With the partitive article | de l'antiquité |
Plural
The plural is antiquités (les antiquités). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.
Why the gender
antiquité ends in
-té. Nouns ending in
-té are usually feminine,
so antiquité 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 « antiquité » masculine or feminine?
« antiquité » is feminine. You say l'antiquité.
« l'antiquité » hides the gender. Is « antiquité » masculine or feminine?
It is feminine. The article shortens to « l'antiquité » for both genders, but you say une antiquité, not un antiquité, and adjectives take the feminine form.
Check another word, or read the complete guide to French noun gender.