Is « engagement » masculine or feminine?

« engagement » is masculine. You say l'engagement.

Article forms

With the definite article l'engagement
With the indefinite article un engagement
With the partitive article de l'engagement

Plural

The plural is engagements (les engagements). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.

Why the gender

engagement ends in -ment. Nouns ending in -ment are usually masculine, so engagement 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 « engagement » masculine or feminine?

« engagement » is masculine. You say l'engagement.

« l'engagement » hides the gender. Is « engagement » masculine or feminine?

It is masculine. The article shortens to « l'engagement » for both genders, but you say un engagement, not une engagement, and adjectives take the masculine form.


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