Is « immunité » masculine or feminine?
« immunité » is feminine. You say l'immunité.
Article forms
| With the definite article | l'immunité |
| With the indefinite article | une immunité |
| With the partitive article | de l'immunité |
Plural
The plural is immunités (les immunités). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.
Why the gender
immunité ends in
-té. Nouns ending in
-té are usually feminine,
so immunité follows the pattern.
The full rules by ending cover every common
suffix.
In a sentence
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Je dispose de l'immunité.
I have immunity. -
Les gens se font vacciner pour créer une immunité contre une maladie.
People get vaccinated to create immunity against a disease. -
Les parlementaires méritent l'immunité et un salaire afin de garantir leur indépendance.
Members of parliament deserve immunity and a paid salary to guarantee their independence.
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 « immunité » masculine or feminine?
« immunité » is feminine. You say l'immunité.
« l'immunité » hides the gender. Is « immunité » masculine or feminine?
It is feminine. The article shortens to « l'immunité » for both genders, but you say une immunité, not un immunité, and adjectives take the feminine form.
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