Is « injection » masculine or feminine?

« injection » is feminine. You say l'injection.

Article forms

With the definite article l'injection
With the indefinite article une injection
With the partitive article de l'injection

Plural

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

Why the gender

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

« injection » is feminine. You say l'injection.

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

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


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