Is « faculté » masculine or feminine?
« faculté » is feminine. You say la faculté.
Article forms
| With the definite article | la faculté |
| With the indefinite article | une faculté |
| With the partitive article | de la faculté |
Plural
The plural is facultés (les facultés). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.
Why the gender
faculté ends in
-té. Nouns ending in
-té are usually feminine,
so faculté follows the pattern.
The full rules by ending cover every common
suffix.
In a sentence
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La faculté vaut-elle le coup ?
Is college worth it? -
Dan a été admis à la faculté de médecine.
Dan was accepted into medical school. -
Il y a devant la faculté quelques librairies.
In front of the university, there are some bookstores.
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 « faculté » masculine or feminine?
« faculté » is feminine. You say la faculté.
Is it « le faculté » or « la faculté »?
It is « la faculté ». « le faculté » is incorrect.
Check another word, or read the complete guide to French noun gender.