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.


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