Is « communauté » masculine or feminine?
« communauté » is feminine. You say la communauté.
Article forms
| With the definite article | la communauté |
| With the indefinite article | une communauté |
| With the partitive article | de la communauté |
Plural
The plural is communautés (les communautés). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.
Why the gender
communauté ends in
-té. Nouns ending in
-té are usually feminine,
so communauté follows the pattern.
The full rules by ending cover every common
suffix.
In a sentence
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Ça profitera à la communauté.
That will benefit the community. -
J'aime la communauté Toki Pona.
I like the Toki Pona community. -
C'est une communauté internationale.
This is an international 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 « communauté » masculine or feminine?
« communauté » is feminine. You say la communauté.
Is it « le communauté » or « la communauté »?
It is « la communauté ». « le communauté » is incorrect.
Check another word, or read the complete guide to French noun gender.