Is « pâté » masculine or feminine?
« pâté » is masculine. You say le pâté.
Article forms
| With the definite article | le pâté |
| With the indefinite article | un pâté |
| With the partitive article | du pâté |
Plural
The plural is pâtés (les pâtés). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.
Why the gender
pâté ends in
-té. Nouns ending in
-té are usually feminine,
so pâté is one of the exceptions: it is
masculine.
The full rules by ending cover every common
suffix.
In a sentence
-
Je pétris la pâte.
I'm kneading the dough. -
J'ai frit la pâte.
I fried the dough. -
Mangez des pâtes.
Eat noodles.
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 « pâté » masculine or feminine?
« pâté » is masculine. You say le pâté.
Is it « la pâté » or « le pâté »?
It is « le pâté ». « la pâté » is incorrect.
Check another word, or read the complete guide to French noun gender.