Is « cité » masculine or feminine?
« cité » is feminine. You say la cité.
Article forms
| With the definite article | la cité |
| With the indefinite article | une cité |
| With the partitive article | de la cité |
Plural
The plural is cités (les cités). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.
Why the gender
cité ends in
-té. Nouns ending in
-té are usually feminine,
so cité follows the pattern.
The full rules by ending cover every common
suffix.
In a sentence
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Un mur ceint la cité.
A wall surrounds the city. -
La cité est entourée d'un mur.
The city is surrounded by a wall. -
Ziri vit dans une cité clôturée.
Ziri lives in a gated community.
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 « cité » masculine or feminine?
« cité » is feminine. You say la cité.
Is it « le cité » or « la cité »?
It is « la cité ». « le cité » is incorrect.
Check another word, or read the complete guide to French noun gender.