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.
In a sentence
-
C'est une embuscade !
It's an ambush! -
Il est tombé dans une embuscade.
He was caught in an ambush. -
Ils nous ont tendu une embuscade.
They ambushed us.
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 « 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.
Check another word, or read the complete guide to French noun gender.