Is « beauté » masculine or feminine?
« beauté » is feminine. You say la beauté.
Article forms
| With the definite article | la beauté |
| With the indefinite article | une beauté |
| With the partitive article | de la beauté |
Plural
The plural is beautés (les beautés). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.
Why the gender
beauté ends in
-té. Nouns ending in
-té are usually feminine,
so beauté follows the pattern.
The full rules by ending cover every common
suffix.
In a sentence
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C'est une beauté.
She's a cutie. -
La beauté se fane.
Beauty fades. -
Nous adorons la beauté.
We love beauty.
Example sentences from Tatoeba, used under CC BY 2.0 FR. Each links to its source sentence.
Related words
Other common nouns that end the same way:
Common questions
Is « beauté » masculine or feminine?
« beauté » is feminine. You say la beauté.
Is it « le beauté » or « la beauté »?
It is « la beauté ». « le beauté » is incorrect.
Check another word, or read the complete guide to French noun gender.