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