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