Is « infirmier » masculine or feminine?
« infirmier » is masculine. You say l'infirmier.
Article forms
| With the definite article | l'infirmier |
| With the indefinite article | un infirmier |
| With the partitive article | de l'infirmier |
Plural
The plural is infirmiers (les infirmiers). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.
Why the gender
infirmier ends in
-ier. Nouns ending in
-ier are usually masculine,
so infirmier follows the pattern.
The full rules by ending cover every common
suffix.
In a sentence
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Je suis l'infirmier de nuit.
I'm the night shift nurse. -
Je suis l'infirmier du week-end.
I am the weekend nurse. -
L'infirmier a tapé dans une veine.
The nurse hit a blood vessel.
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 « infirmier » masculine or feminine?
« infirmier » is masculine. You say l'infirmier.
« l'infirmier » hides the gender. Is « infirmier » masculine or feminine?
It is masculine. The article shortens to « l'infirmier » for both genders, but you say un infirmier, not une infirmier, and adjectives take the masculine form.
Check another word, or read the complete guide to French noun gender.