Is « humiliation » masculine or feminine?

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

Article forms

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

Plural

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

Why the gender

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

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

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

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


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