Is « publicité » masculine or feminine?
« publicité » is feminine. You say la publicité.
Article forms
| With the definite article | la publicité |
| With the indefinite article | une publicité |
| With the partitive article | de la publicité |
Plural
The plural is publicités (les publicités). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.
Why the gender
publicité ends in
-té. Nouns ending in
-té are usually feminine,
so publicité follows the pattern.
The full rules by ending cover every common
suffix.
In a sentence
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Ils regardent la publicité.
They're watching the commercial. -
Tom travaille dans la publicité.
Tom works in advertising. -
Ils n'en font pas la publicité.
That's not being advertised.
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 « publicité » masculine or feminine?
« publicité » is feminine. You say la publicité.
Is it « le publicité » or « la publicité »?
It is « la publicité ». « le publicité » is incorrect.
Check another word, or read the complete guide to French noun gender.