Is « araignée » masculine or feminine?
« araignée » is feminine. You say l'araignée.
Article forms
| With the definite article | l'araignée |
| With the indefinite article | une araignée |
| With the partitive article | de l'araignée |
Plural
The plural is araignées (les araignées). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.
Why the gender
araignée ends in
-ée. Nouns ending in
-ée are usually feminine,
so araignée follows the pattern.
The full rules by ending cover every common
suffix.
In a sentence
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Tom a tué l'araignée.
Tom killed the spider. -
J'ai peur des araignées.
Spiders scare me. -
J'ai horreur des araignées.
I abhor spiders.
Example sentences from Tatoeba, used under CC BY 2.0 FR. Each links to its source sentence.
Related words
Other common nouns that end the same way:
Common questions
Is « araignée » masculine or feminine?
« araignée » is feminine. You say l'araignée.
« l'araignée » hides the gender. Is « araignée » masculine or feminine?
It is feminine. The article shortens to « l'araignée » for both genders, but you say une araignée, not un araignée, and adjectives take the feminine form.
Check another word, or read the complete guide to French noun gender.