Is « organisme » masculine or feminine?
« organisme » is masculine. You say l'organisme.
Article forms
| With the definite article | l'organisme |
| With the indefinite article | un organisme |
| With the partitive article | de l'organisme |
Plural
The plural is organismes (les organismes). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.
Why the gender
organisme ends in
-isme. Nouns ending in
-isme are usually masculine,
so organisme follows the pattern.
The full rules by ending cover every common
suffix.
In a sentence
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C'est un organisme unicellulaire.
It's a single-cell organism. -
L'homme est un organisme complexe.
Man is a complex organism. -
L'amibe est un organisme unicellulaire.
The amoeba is a unicellular organism.
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 « organisme » masculine or feminine?
« organisme » is masculine. You say l'organisme.
« l'organisme » hides the gender. Is « organisme » masculine or feminine?
It is masculine. The article shortens to « l'organisme » for both genders, but you say un organisme, not une organisme, and adjectives take the masculine form.
Check another word, or read the complete guide to French noun gender.