Is « autorité » masculine or feminine?
« autorité » is feminine. You say l'autorité.
Article forms
| With the definite article | l'autorité |
| With the indefinite article | une autorité |
| With the partitive article | de l'autorité |
Plural
The plural is autorités (les autorités). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.
Why the gender
autorité ends in
-té. Nouns ending in
-té are usually feminine,
so autorité follows the pattern.
The full rules by ending cover every common
suffix.
In a sentence
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Défie l'autorité !
Defy authority! -
Emmerdez l'autorité !
Fuck authority! -
Appelle les autorités.
Call the authorities.
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 « autorité » masculine or feminine?
« autorité » is feminine. You say l'autorité.
« l'autorité » hides the gender. Is « autorité » masculine or feminine?
It is feminine. The article shortens to « l'autorité » for both genders, but you say une autorité, not un autorité, and adjectives take the feminine form.
Check another word, or read the complete guide to French noun gender.