Is « capacité » masculine or feminine?
« capacité » is feminine. You say la capacité.
Article forms
| With the definite article | la capacité |
| With the indefinite article | une capacité |
| With the partitive article | de la capacité |
Plural
The plural is capacités (les capacités). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.
Why the gender
capacité ends in
-té. Nouns ending in
-té are usually feminine,
so capacité 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 « capacité » masculine or feminine?
« capacité » is feminine. You say la capacité.
Is it « le capacité » or « la capacité »?
It is « la capacité ». « le capacité » is incorrect.
Check another word, or read the complete guide to French noun gender.