Is « expérience » masculine or feminine?
« expérience » is feminine. You say l'expérience.
In English, « expérience » means experience; experiment.
Article forms
| With the definite article | l'expérience |
| With the indefinite article | une expérience |
| With the partitive article | de l'expérience |
Plural
The plural is expériences (les expériences). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.
Why the gender
expérience ends in
-ence. Nouns ending in
-ence are usually feminine,
so expérience follows the pattern.
The full rules by ending cover every common
suffix.
In a sentence
-
L'expérience échoua.
The experiment ended in failure. -
Il a de l'expérience.
He has experience. -
C'est une expérience.
It's an experiment.
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 « expérience » masculine or feminine?
« expérience » is feminine. You say l'expérience.
« l'expérience » hides the gender. Is « expérience » masculine or feminine?
It is feminine. The article shortens to « l'expérience » for both genders, but you say une expérience, not un expérience, and adjectives take the feminine form.
Check another word, or read the complete guide to French noun gender.