Is « explosion » masculine or feminine?
« explosion » is feminine. You say l'explosion.
Article forms
| With the definite article | l'explosion |
| With the indefinite article | une explosion |
| With the partitive article | de l'explosion |
Plural
The plural is explosions (les explosions). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.
Why the gender
explosion ends in
-sion. Nouns ending in
-sion are usually feminine,
so explosion follows the pattern.
The full rules by ending cover every common
suffix.
In a sentence
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Était-ce une explosion ?
Was it an explosion? -
Il y a eu une explosion.
There was an explosion. -
J'ai vu une explosion.
I saw an explosion.
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 « explosion » masculine or feminine?
« explosion » is feminine. You say l'explosion.
« l'explosion » hides the gender. Is « explosion » masculine or feminine?
It is feminine. The article shortens to « l'explosion » for both genders, but you say une explosion, not un explosion, and adjectives take the feminine form.
Check another word, or read the complete guide to French noun gender.