Is « expérience » masculine or feminine?
« expérience » is feminine. You say l'expérience.
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.
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.
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