Is « obscurité » masculine or feminine?
« obscurité » is feminine. You say l'obscurité.
Article forms
| With the definite article | l'obscurité |
| With the indefinite article | une obscurité |
| With the partitive article | de l'obscurité |
Plural
The plural is obscurités (les obscurités). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.
Why the gender
obscurité ends in
-té. Nouns ending in
-té are usually feminine,
so obscurité 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 « obscurité » masculine or feminine?
« obscurité » is feminine. You say l'obscurité.
« l'obscurité » hides the gender. Is « obscurité » masculine or feminine?
It is feminine. The article shortens to « l'obscurité » for both genders, but you say une obscurité, not un obscurité, and adjectives take the feminine form.
Check another word, or read the complete guide to French noun gender.