Is « audition » masculine or feminine?

« audition » is feminine. You say l'audition.

Article forms

With the definite article l'audition
With the indefinite article une audition
With the partitive article de l'audition

Plural

The plural is auditions (les auditions). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.

Why the gender

audition ends in -tion. Nouns ending in -tion are usually feminine, so audition 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 « audition » masculine or feminine?

« audition » is feminine. You say l'audition.

« l'audition » hides the gender. Is « audition » masculine or feminine?

It is feminine. The article shortens to « l'audition » for both genders, but you say une audition, not un audition, and adjectives take the feminine form.


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