Is « euro » masculine or feminine?
« euro » works as both masculine and feminine. You will see un euro and une euro, with the article carrying the meaning or agreeing with the person described.
Article forms
| With the definite article | l'euro |
| With the indefinite article | un euro / une euro |
| With the partitive article | de l'euro |
Plural
The plural is euros (les euros). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.
Why the gender
euro ends in
-o. Nouns ending in
-o are usually masculine,
though euro works as either gender.
The full rules by ending cover every common
suffix.
In a sentence
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Ils se sont battus pour un euro.
They had a fight over one euro. -
L'Euro vaut à peu près un dollar aujourd'hui.
The Euro is worth approximately one dollar today. -
Connaissez-vous le taux de change du dollar vers l'euro ?
Do you know the conversion rate between dollars and euros?
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 « euro » masculine or feminine?
« euro » works as both. You will see un euro and une euro, with the article carrying the meaning or agreeing with the person being described.
Is it « un euro » or « une euro »?
Both are correct. Use the masculine or the feminine depending on the sense or the person.
Check another word, or read the complete guide to French noun gender.