Is « arrestation » masculine or feminine?
« arrestation » is feminine. You say l'arrestation.
Article forms
| With the definite article | l'arrestation |
| With the indefinite article | une arrestation |
| With the partitive article | de l'arrestation |
Plural
The plural is arrestations (les arrestations). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.
Why the gender
arrestation ends in
-tion. Nouns ending in
-tion are usually feminine,
so arrestation follows the pattern.
The full rules by ending cover every common
suffix.
In a sentence
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Qui a procédé à l'arrestation proprement dite ?
Who made the actual arrest? -
Toutes les enquêtes de police n’aboutissent pas forcément à l’arrestation d’un coupable.
Not all police investigations necessarily lead to the arrest of a culprit. -
Son arrestation est justifiée.
Her arrest is justified.
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 « arrestation » masculine or feminine?
« arrestation » is feminine. You say l'arrestation.
« l'arrestation » hides the gender. Is « arrestation » masculine or feminine?
It is feminine. The article shortens to « l'arrestation » for both genders, but you say une arrestation, not un arrestation, and adjectives take the feminine form.
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