Is « infirmerie » masculine or feminine?
« infirmerie » is feminine. You say l'infirmerie.
Article forms
| With the definite article | l'infirmerie |
| With the indefinite article | une infirmerie |
| With the partitive article | de l'infirmerie |
Plural
The plural is infirmeries (les infirmeries). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.
Why the gender
infirmerie ends in
-ie. Nouns ending in
-ie are usually feminine,
so infirmerie follows the pattern.
The full rules by ending cover every common
suffix.
In a sentence
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Tu aurais mieux fait d'aller à l'infirmerie.
You had better go to the infirmary. -
C'est l'hôpital qui se moque de l'infirmerie.
That's the pot calling the kettle black.
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 « infirmerie » masculine or feminine?
« infirmerie » is feminine. You say l'infirmerie.
« l'infirmerie » hides the gender. Is « infirmerie » masculine or feminine?
It is feminine. The article shortens to « l'infirmerie » for both genders, but you say une infirmerie, not un infirmerie, and adjectives take the feminine form.
Check another word, or read the complete guide to French noun gender.