Is « hémorragie » masculine or feminine?
« hémorragie » is feminine. You say l'hémorragie.
Article forms
| With the definite article | l'hémorragie |
| With the indefinite article | une hémorragie |
| With the partitive article | de l'hémorragie |
Plural
The plural is hémorragies (les hémorragies). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.
Why the gender
hémorragie ends in
-ie. Nouns ending in
-ie are usually feminine,
so hémorragie follows the pattern.
The full rules by ending cover every common
suffix.
In a sentence
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J'ai peur d'avoir une hémorragie interne.
I'm afraid I have internal bleeding. -
Je ne parviens pas à juguler l'hémorragie.
I can't stop the bleeding. -
Il faut faire quelque chose pour arrêter l'hémorragie.
Something has to be done to stop the bleeding.
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 « hémorragie » masculine or feminine?
« hémorragie » is feminine. You say l'hémorragie.
« l'hémorragie » hides the gender. Is « hémorragie » masculine or feminine?
It is feminine. The article shortens to « l'hémorragie » for both genders, but you say une hémorragie, not un hémorragie, and adjectives take the feminine form.
Check another word, or read the complete guide to French noun gender.