Is « avortement » masculine or feminine?

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

Article forms

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

Plural

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

Why the gender

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

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

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

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


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