Is « bonté » masculine or feminine?
« bonté » is feminine. You say la bonté.
Article forms
| With the definite article | la bonté |
| With the indefinite article | une bonté |
| With the partitive article | de la bonté |
Plural
The plural is bontés (les bontés). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.
Why the gender
bonté ends in
-té. Nouns ending in
-té are usually feminine,
so bonté follows the pattern.
The full rules by ending cover every common
suffix.
In a sentence
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Est-ce que la bonté charme plus que la beauté ?
Does goodness charm more than beauty? -
La bonté est abstraite. Une bonne action est concrète.
Goodness is abstract, a kind act is concrete. -
Il a eu la bonté de m'indiquer le chemin du théâtre.
He was kind enough to show me the way to the theater.
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 « bonté » masculine or feminine?
« bonté » is feminine. You say la bonté.
Is it « le bonté » or « la bonté »?
It is « la bonté ». « le bonté » is incorrect.
Check another word, or read the complete guide to French noun gender.