Is « armée » masculine or feminine?
« armée » is feminine. You say l'armée.
In English, « armée » means army.
Article forms
| With the definite article | l'armée |
| With the indefinite article | une armée |
| With the partitive article | de l'armée |
Plural
The plural is armées (les armées). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.
Why the gender
armée ends in
-ée. Nouns ending in
-ée are usually feminine,
so armée follows the pattern.
The full rules by ending cover every common
suffix.
In a sentence
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L'armée me manque.
I miss the army. -
J'ai rejoint l'armée.
I joined the army. -
L'armée est arrivée.
The army arrived.
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 « armée » masculine or feminine?
« armée » is feminine. You say l'armée.
« l'armée » hides the gender. Is « armée » masculine or feminine?
It is feminine. The article shortens to « l'armée » for both genders, but you say une armée, not un armée, and adjectives take the feminine form.
Check another word, or read the complete guide to French noun gender.