Is « spectateur » masculine or feminine?
« spectateur » is masculine. You say le spectateur.
Article forms
| With the definite article | le spectateur |
| With the indefinite article | un spectateur |
| With the partitive article | du spectateur |
Plural
The plural is spectateurs (les spectateurs). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.
Why the gender
spectateur ends in
-teur. Nouns ending in
-teur are usually masculine,
so spectateur follows the pattern.
The full rules by ending cover every common
suffix.
In a sentence
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Les spectateurs rient.
The audience laughs. -
Les spectateurs arrivent.
The spectators are arriving. -
Il attristait les spectateurs.
He made the spectators sad.
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 « spectateur » masculine or feminine?
« spectateur » is masculine. You say le spectateur.
Is it « la spectateur » or « le spectateur »?
It is « le spectateur ». « la spectateur » is incorrect.
Check another word, or read the complete guide to French noun gender.