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.
In a sentence
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Leur intimité s'accrut avec les années.
Their intimacy grew with the years. -
L'intimité que nous avions auparavant me manque.
I miss the intimacy we used to have. -
Dans l'intimité de sa chambre elle écrit ses mémoires.
In the privacy of her bedroom she writes in her diary.
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 « 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.
Check another word, or read the complete guide to French noun gender.