Is « pauvreté » masculine or feminine?
« pauvreté » is feminine. You say la pauvreté.
Article forms
| With the definite article | la pauvreté |
| With the indefinite article | une pauvreté |
| With the partitive article | de la pauvreté |
Plural
The plural is pauvretés (les pauvretés). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.
Why the gender
pauvreté ends in
-té. Nouns ending in
-té are usually feminine,
so pauvreté follows the pattern.
The full rules by ending cover every common
suffix.
In a sentence
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J'ai vécu dans la pauvreté.
I lived in poverty. -
La pauvreté règne partout.
Poverty is everywhere. -
La Chine éradique la pauvreté.
China is eliminating poverty.
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 « pauvreté » masculine or feminine?
« pauvreté » is feminine. You say la pauvreté.
Is it « le pauvreté » or « la pauvreté »?
It is « la pauvreté ». « le pauvreté » is incorrect.
Check another word, or read the complete guide to French noun gender.