Is « avantage » masculine or feminine?
« avantage » is masculine. You say l'avantage.
Article forms
| With the definite article | l'avantage |
| With the indefinite article | un avantage |
| With the partitive article | de l'avantage |
Plural
The plural is avantages (les avantages). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.
Why the gender
avantage ends in
-age. Nouns ending in
-age are usually masculine,
so avantage 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 « avantage » masculine or feminine?
« avantage » is masculine. You say l'avantage.
« l'avantage » hides the gender. Is « avantage » masculine or feminine?
It is masculine. The article shortens to « l'avantage » for both genders, but you say un avantage, not une avantage, and adjectives take the masculine form.
Check another word, or read the complete guide to French noun gender.