Is « imagination » masculine or feminine?

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

Article forms

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

Plural

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

Why the gender

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

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

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

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


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