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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