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.
Check another word, or read the complete guide to French noun gender.