Is « saleté » masculine or feminine?
« saleté » is feminine. You say la saleté.
Article forms
| With the definite article | la saleté |
| With the indefinite article | une saleté |
| With the partitive article | de la saleté |
Plural
The plural is saletés (les saletés). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.
Why the gender
saleté ends in
-té. Nouns ending in
-té are usually feminine,
so saleté follows the pattern.
The full rules by ending cover every common
suffix.
In a sentence
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La saleté engendre les maladies.
Filth breeds illnesses. -
Le savon aide à enlever la saleté.
Soap helps remove the dirt. -
Cette bouteille est dans la saleté.
That bottle is in the dirt.
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 « saleté » masculine or feminine?
« saleté » is feminine. You say la saleté.
Is it « le saleté » or « la saleté »?
It is « la saleté ». « le saleté » is incorrect.
Check another word, or read the complete guide to French noun gender.