Is « investissement » masculine or feminine?

« investissement » is masculine. You say l'investissement.

Article forms

With the definite article l'investissement
With the indefinite article un investissement
With the partitive article de l'investissement

Plural

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

Why the gender

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

« investissement » is masculine. You say l'investissement.

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

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


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