Is « hallucination » masculine or feminine?

« hallucination » is feminine. You say l'hallucination.

Article forms

With the definite article l'hallucination
With the indefinite article une hallucination
With the partitive article de l'hallucination

Plural

The plural is hallucinations (les hallucinations). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.

Why the gender

hallucination ends in -tion. Nouns ending in -tion are usually feminine, so hallucination 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 « hallucination » masculine or feminine?

« hallucination » is feminine. You say l'hallucination.

« l'hallucination » hides the gender. Is « hallucination » masculine or feminine?

It is feminine. The article shortens to « l'hallucination » for both genders, but you say une hallucination, not un hallucination, and adjectives take the feminine form.


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