Is « intelligence » masculine or feminine?
« intelligence » is feminine. You say l'intelligence.
Article forms
| With the definite article | l'intelligence |
| With the indefinite article | une intelligence |
| With the partitive article | de l'intelligence |
Plural
The plural is intelligences (les intelligences). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.
Why the gender
intelligence ends in
-ence. Nouns ending in
-ence are usually feminine,
so intelligence follows the pattern.
The full rules by ending cover every common
suffix.
In a sentence
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Ziri a de l'intelligence.
Ziri is smart. -
La foi est la mort de l'intelligence.
Belief is the death of intelligence. -
Je suis une intelligence artificielle.
I'm an artificial intelligence.
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 « intelligence » masculine or feminine?
« intelligence » is feminine. You say l'intelligence.
« l'intelligence » hides the gender. Is « intelligence » masculine or feminine?
It is feminine. The article shortens to « l'intelligence » for both genders, but you say une intelligence, not un intelligence, and adjectives take the feminine form.
Check another word, or read the complete guide to French noun gender.