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.

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.


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