Is « honnêteté » masculine or feminine?
« honnêteté » is feminine. You say l'honnêteté.
Article forms
| With the definite article | l'honnêteté |
| With the indefinite article | une honnêteté |
| With the partitive article | de l'honnêteté |
Plural
The plural is honnêtetés (les honnêtetés). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.
Why the gender
honnêteté ends in
-té. Nouns ending in
-té are usually feminine,
so honnêteté follows the pattern.
The full rules by ending cover every common
suffix.
In a sentence
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L'honnêteté paye.
Honesty pays. -
L'honnêteté ne paie pas.
Honesty doesn't pay. -
L'honnêteté est une vertu.
Honesty is a virtue.
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 « honnêteté » masculine or feminine?
« honnêteté » is feminine. You say l'honnêteté.
« l'honnêteté » hides the gender. Is « honnêteté » masculine or feminine?
It is feminine. The article shortens to « l'honnêteté » for both genders, but you say une honnêteté, not un honnêteté, and adjectives take the feminine form.
Check another word, or read the complete guide to French noun gender.