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