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.
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.