Is « humanité » masculine or feminine?
« humanité » is feminine. You say l'humanité.
Article forms
| With the definite article | l'humanité |
| With the indefinite article | une humanité |
| With the partitive article | de l'humanité |
Plural
The plural is humanités (les humanités). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.
Why the gender
humanité ends in
-té. Nouns ending in
-té are usually feminine,
so humanité 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 « humanité » masculine or feminine?
« humanité » is feminine. You say l'humanité.
« l'humanité » hides the gender. Is « humanité » masculine or feminine?
It is feminine. The article shortens to « l'humanité » for both genders, but you say une humanité, not un humanité, and adjectives take the feminine form.
Check another word, or read the complete guide to French noun gender.