Is « comité » masculine or feminine?
« comité » is masculine. You say le comité.
Article forms
| With the definite article | le comité |
| With the indefinite article | un comité |
| With the partitive article | du comité |
Plural
The plural is comités (les comités). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.
Why the gender
comité ends in
-té. Nouns ending in
-té are usually feminine,
so comité is one of the exceptions: it is
masculine.
The full rules by ending cover every common
suffix.
In a sentence
-
C'est un membre du comité.
He is a member of the committee. -
Faites-vous partie du comité ?
Are you on the committee? -
Il est le président du comité.
He's the chairman of the committee.
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 « comité » masculine or feminine?
« comité » is masculine. You say le comité.
Is it « la comité » or « le comité »?
It is « le comité ». « la comité » is incorrect.
Check another word, or read the complete guide to French noun gender.