Is « salade » masculine or feminine?
« salade » is feminine. You say la salade.
Article forms
| With the definite article | la salade |
| With the indefinite article | une salade |
| With the partitive article | de la salade |
Plural
The plural is salades (les salades). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.
Why the gender
salade ends in
-ade. Nouns ending in
-ade are usually feminine,
so salade follows the pattern.
The full rules by ending cover every common
suffix.
In a sentence
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Ils font une salade.
They are making a salad. -
J'ai mangé la salade.
I ate the salad. -
Encore de la salade ?
Salad again?
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 « salade » masculine or feminine?
« salade » is feminine. You say la salade.
Is it « le salade » or « la salade »?
It is « la salade ». « le salade » is incorrect.
Check another word, or read the complete guide to French noun gender.