Is « invité » masculine or feminine?
« invité » is masculine. You say l'invité.
Article forms
| With the definite article | l'invité |
| With the indefinite article | un invité |
| With the partitive article | de l'invité |
Plural
The plural is invités (les invités). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.
Why the gender
invité ends in
-té. Nouns ending in
-té are usually feminine,
so invité is one of the exceptions: it is
masculine.
The full rules by ending cover every common
suffix.
In a sentence
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J'ai un invité.
I have a guest. -
Tom est un invité.
Tom is a guest. -
Tu as un invité.
You have a guest.
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 « invité » masculine or feminine?
« invité » is masculine. You say l'invité.
« l'invité » hides the gender. Is « invité » masculine or feminine?
It is masculine. The article shortens to « l'invité » for both genders, but you say un invité, not une invité, and adjectives take the masculine form.
Check another word, or read the complete guide to French noun gender.