Is « embuscade » masculine or feminine?
« embuscade » is feminine. You say l'embuscade.
Article forms
| With the definite article | l'embuscade |
| With the indefinite article | une embuscade |
| With the partitive article | de l'embuscade |
Plural
The plural is embuscades (les embuscades). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.
Why the gender
embuscade ends in
-ade. Nouns ending in
-ade are usually feminine,
so embuscade follows the pattern.
The full rules by ending cover every common
suffix.
Related words
Other common nouns that end the same way:
Common questions
Is « embuscade » masculine or feminine?
« embuscade » is feminine. You say l'embuscade.
« l'embuscade » hides the gender. Is « embuscade » masculine or feminine?
It is feminine. The article shortens to « l'embuscade » for both genders, but you say une embuscade, not un embuscade, and adjectives take the feminine form.
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