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.

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.