Is « imposteur » masculine or feminine?

« imposteur » is masculine. You say l'imposteur.

Article forms

With the definite article l'imposteur
With the indefinite article un imposteur
With the partitive article de l'imposteur

Plural

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

Why the gender

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

« imposteur » is masculine. You say l'imposteur.

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

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


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