Is « environnement » masculine or feminine?
« environnement » is masculine. You say l'environnement.
Article forms
| With the definite article | l'environnement |
| With the indefinite article | un environnement |
| With the partitive article | de l'environnement |
Plural
The plural is environnements (les environnements). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.
Why the gender
environnement ends in
-ment. Nouns ending in
-ment are usually masculine,
so environnement 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 « environnement » masculine or feminine?
« environnement » is masculine. You say l'environnement.
« l'environnement » hides the gender. Is « environnement » masculine or feminine?
It is masculine. The article shortens to « l'environnement » for both genders, but you say un environnement, not une environnement, and adjectives take the masculine form.
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