Is « hommage » masculine or feminine?

« hommage » is masculine. You say l'hommage.

Article forms

With the definite article l'hommage
With the indefinite article un hommage
With the partitive article de l'hommage

Plural

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

Why the gender

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

« hommage » is masculine. You say l'hommage.

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

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


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