Is « raté » masculine or feminine?
« raté » is masculine. You say le raté.
Article forms
| With the definite article | le raté |
| With the indefinite article | un raté |
| With the partitive article | du raté |
Plural
The plural is ratés (les ratés). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.
Why the gender
raté ends in
-té. Nouns ending in
-té are usually feminine,
so raté is one of the exceptions: it is
masculine.
The full rules by ending cover every common
suffix.
In a sentence
-
Ce type est un raté.
This guy is a loser. -
Je suis un raté complet.
I'm a total loser. -
Une seule erreur et t'es un raté.
A single mistake, and you are a failure.
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 « raté » masculine or feminine?
« raté » is masculine. You say le raté.
Is it « la raté » or « le raté »?
It is « le raté ». « la raté » is incorrect.
Check another word, or read the complete guide to French noun gender.