Is « mécanisme » masculine or feminine?
« mécanisme » is masculine. You say le mécanisme.
Article forms
| With the definite article | le mécanisme |
| With the indefinite article | un mécanisme |
| With the partitive article | du mécanisme |
Plural
The plural is mécanismes (les mécanismes). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.
Why the gender
mécanisme ends in
-isme. Nouns ending in
-isme are usually masculine,
so mécanisme follows the pattern.
The full rules by ending cover every common
suffix.
In a sentence
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Le mécanisme de fermeture s'est coincé.
The locking mechanism has jammed. -
Le mécanisme de cette machine est compliqué.
The mechanism of this machine is complicated. -
L'économie c'est l'étude des mécanismes économiques.
Economics is the study of economic mechanisms.
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 « mécanisme » masculine or feminine?
« mécanisme » is masculine. You say le mécanisme.
Is it « la mécanisme » or « le mécanisme »?
It is « le mécanisme ». « la mécanisme » is incorrect.
Check another word, or read the complete guide to French noun gender.