Is « cachette » masculine or feminine?
« cachette » is feminine. You say la cachette.
Article forms
| With the definite article | la cachette |
| With the indefinite article | une cachette |
| With the partitive article | de la cachette |
Plural
The plural is cachettes (les cachettes). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.
Why the gender
cachette ends in
-ette. Nouns ending in
-ette are usually feminine,
so cachette follows the pattern.
The full rules by ending cover every common
suffix.
In a sentence
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Elle a trahi sa cachette à la police.
She betrayed his hiding place to the police. -
Les chiens levèrent le renard de sa cachette.
The hounds flushed the fox out of its hiding place. -
Il fallut une semaine pour localiser leur cachette.
It took one week to locate their hiding place.
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 « cachette » masculine or feminine?
« cachette » is feminine. You say la cachette.
Is it « le cachette » or « la cachette »?
It is « la cachette ». « le cachette » is incorrect.
Check another word, or read the complete guide to French noun gender.