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