Is « intimité » masculine or feminine?
« intimité » is feminine. You say l'intimité.
Article forms
| With the definite article | l'intimité |
| With the indefinite article | une intimité |
| With the partitive article | de l'intimité |
Plural
The plural is intimités (les intimités). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.
Why the gender
intimité ends in
-té. Nouns ending in
-té are usually feminine,
so intimité 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 « intimité » masculine or feminine?
« intimité » is feminine. You say l'intimité.
« l'intimité » hides the gender. Is « intimité » masculine or feminine?
It is feminine. The article shortens to « l'intimité » for both genders, but you say une intimité, not un intimité, and adjectives take the feminine form.
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