Is « escalier » masculine or feminine?
« escalier » is masculine. You say l'escalier.
Article forms
| With the definite article | l'escalier |
| With the indefinite article | un escalier |
| With the partitive article | de l'escalier |
Plural
The plural is escaliers (les escaliers). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.
Why the gender
escalier ends in
-ier. Nouns ending in
-ier are usually masculine,
so escalier follows the pattern.
The full rules by ending cover every common
suffix.
In a sentence
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Monte les escaliers.
Go up the stairs. -
Prends les escaliers.
Take the stairs. -
Je descends l'escalier.
I am going down the stairs.
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 « escalier » masculine or feminine?
« escalier » is masculine. You say l'escalier.
« l'escalier » hides the gender. Is « escalier » masculine or feminine?
It is masculine. The article shortens to « l'escalier » for both genders, but you say un escalier, not une escalier, and adjectives take the masculine form.
Check another word, or read the complete guide to French noun gender.