Is « loyauté » masculine or feminine?
« loyauté » is feminine. You say la loyauté.
Article forms
| With the definite article | la loyauté |
| With the indefinite article | une loyauté |
| With the partitive article | de la loyauté |
Plural
The plural is loyautés (les loyautés). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.
Why the gender
loyauté ends in
-té. Nouns ending in
-té are usually feminine,
so loyauté follows the pattern.
The full rules by ending cover every common
suffix.
In a sentence
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La loyauté existe-t-elle encore ?
Does loyalty even exist anymore? -
L'or devient charbon devant l'honneur et la loyauté.
Gold will transmute into coal before honour and loyalty alter. -
Le chemin vers le mal peut apporter un grand pouvoir, mais pas la loyauté.
The path to evil may bring great power, but not loyalty.
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 « loyauté » masculine or feminine?
« loyauté » is feminine. You say la loyauté.
Is it « le loyauté » or « la loyauté »?
It is « la loyauté ». « le loyauté » is incorrect.
Check another word, or read the complete guide to French noun gender.