Is « arrivée » masculine or feminine?
« arrivée » is feminine. You say l'arrivée.
Article forms
| With the definite article | l'arrivée |
| With the indefinite article | une arrivée |
| With the partitive article | de l'arrivée |
Plural
The plural is arrivées (les arrivées). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.
Why the gender
arrivée ends in
-ée. Nouns ending in
-ée are usually feminine,
so arrivée follows the pattern.
The full rules by ending cover every common
suffix.
In a sentence
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L'arrivée est imminente.
The arrival is imminent. -
J'ai attendu l'arrivée du bus.
I waited for a bus to come. -
Ken attend l'arrivée du train.
Ken is waiting for the arrival of the train.
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 « arrivée » masculine or feminine?
« arrivée » is feminine. You say l'arrivée.
« l'arrivée » hides the gender. Is « arrivée » masculine or feminine?
It is feminine. The article shortens to « l'arrivée » for both genders, but you say une arrivée, not un arrivée, and adjectives take the feminine form.
Check another word, or read the complete guide to French noun gender.