Is « installation » masculine or feminine?
« installation » is feminine. You say l'installation.
Article forms
| With the definite article | l'installation |
| With the indefinite article | une installation |
| With the partitive article | de l'installation |
Plural
The plural is installations (les installations). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.
Why the gender
installation ends in
-tion. Nouns ending in
-tion are usually feminine,
so installation follows the pattern.
The full rules by ending cover every common
suffix.
In a sentence
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L'installation est maintenant terminée.
The installation is now complete. -
L'installation du jeu m'a pris deux heures.
The game's installation took me two hours. -
L'explosion a réduit les installations en ruines.
The explosion reduced the facilities to ruins.
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 « installation » masculine or feminine?
« installation » is feminine. You say l'installation.
« l'installation » hides the gender. Is « installation » masculine or feminine?
It is feminine. The article shortens to « l'installation » for both genders, but you say une installation, not un installation, and adjectives take the feminine form.
Check another word, or read the complete guide to French noun gender.