Is « hospitalité » masculine or feminine?
« hospitalité » is feminine. You say l'hospitalité.
Article forms
| With the definite article | l'hospitalité |
| With the indefinite article | une hospitalité |
| With the partitive article | de l'hospitalité |
Plural
The plural is hospitalités (les hospitalités). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.
Why the gender
hospitalité ends in
-té. Nouns ending in
-té are usually feminine,
so hospitalité follows the pattern.
The full rules by ending cover every common
suffix.
In a sentence
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J'apprécie l'hospitalité.
I appreciate the hospitality. -
Tous les invités étaient émus par son hospitalité.
All the guests were touched by her hospitality. -
Je lui ai offert un bouquet de fleurs en remerciement de son hospitalité.
I gave a bunch of roses to her in return for her hospitality.
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 « hospitalité » masculine or feminine?
« hospitalité » is feminine. You say l'hospitalité.
« l'hospitalité » hides the gender. Is « hospitalité » masculine or feminine?
It is feminine. The article shortens to « l'hospitalité » for both genders, but you say une hospitalité, not un hospitalité, and adjectives take the feminine form.
Check another word, or read the complete guide to French noun gender.