Is « immigration » masculine or feminine?

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

Article forms

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

Plural

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

Why the gender

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

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

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

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


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