Is « difficulté » masculine or feminine?
« difficulté » is feminine. You say la difficulté.
Article forms
| With the definite article | la difficulté |
| With the indefinite article | une difficulté |
| With the partitive article | de la difficulté |
Plural
The plural is difficultés (les difficultés). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.
Why the gender
difficulté ends in
-té. Nouns ending in
-té are usually feminine,
so difficulté follows the pattern.
The full rules by ending cover every common
suffix.
In a sentence
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Y a-t-il des difficultés ?
Are there any difficulties? -
J'ai des difficultés à uriner.
I have difficulty urinating. -
Ils connaissent les difficultés.
They know the difficulties.
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 « difficulté » masculine or feminine?
« difficulté » is feminine. You say la difficulté.
Is it « le difficulté » or « la difficulté »?
It is « la difficulté ». « le difficulté » is incorrect.
Check another word, or read the complete guide to French noun gender.