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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