Is « autorisation » masculine or feminine?
« autorisation » is feminine. You say l'autorisation.
Article forms
| With the definite article | l'autorisation |
| With the indefinite article | une autorisation |
| With the partitive article | de l'autorisation |
Plural
The plural is autorisations (les autorisations). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.
Why the gender
autorisation ends in
-tion. Nouns ending in
-tion are usually feminine,
so autorisation follows the pattern.
The full rules by ending cover every common
suffix.
In a sentence
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Il nous faut une autorisation.
We need authorization. -
Tom a l'autorisation de le faire.
Tom is authorized to do this. -
Tu as l'autorisation de le rencontrer.
You may meet him.
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 « autorisation » masculine or feminine?
« autorisation » is feminine. You say l'autorisation.
« l'autorisation » hides the gender. Is « autorisation » masculine or feminine?
It is feminine. The article shortens to « l'autorisation » for both genders, but you say une autorisation, not un autorisation, and adjectives take the feminine form.
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