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.

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.


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