Is « intervention » masculine or feminine?

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

Article forms

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

Plural

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

Why the gender

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

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

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

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


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