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