Is « avertissement » masculine or feminine?

« avertissement » is masculine. You say l'avertissement.

Article forms

With the definite article l'avertissement
With the indefinite article un avertissement
With the partitive article de l'avertissement

Plural

The plural is avertissements (les avertissements). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.

Why the gender

avertissement ends in -ment. Nouns ending in -ment are usually masculine, so avertissement 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 « avertissement » masculine or feminine?

« avertissement » is masculine. You say l'avertissement.

« l'avertissement » hides the gender. Is « avertissement » masculine or feminine?

It is masculine. The article shortens to « l'avertissement » for both genders, but you say un avertissement, not une avertissement, and adjectives take the masculine form.


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