Is « autopsie » masculine or feminine?
« autopsie » is feminine. You say l'autopsie.
Article forms
| With the definite article | l'autopsie |
| With the indefinite article | une autopsie |
| With the partitive article | de l'autopsie |
Plural
The plural is autopsies (les autopsies). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.
Why the gender
autopsie ends in
-ie. Nouns ending in
-ie are usually feminine,
so autopsie follows the pattern.
The full rules by ending cover every common
suffix.
In a sentence
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Y a-t-il eu une autopsie ?
Was there an autopsy? -
Une autopsie a été pratiquée sur le corps de Dan.
An autopsy was performed on Dan's body. -
J'aimerais pratiquer une autopsie sur ce cadavre.
I'd like to do an autopsy on this body.
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 « autopsie » masculine or feminine?
« autopsie » is feminine. You say l'autopsie.
« l'autopsie » hides the gender. Is « autopsie » masculine or feminine?
It is feminine. The article shortens to « l'autopsie » for both genders, but you say une autopsie, not un autopsie, and adjectives take the feminine form.
Check another word, or read the complete guide to French noun gender.