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.
In a sentence
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L'artillerie lourde a été employée.
Heavy artillery was employed. -
Les chevaliers ont été décimés par l'artillerie.
The cavaliers were decimated by the artillery.
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 « 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.