Is « stade » masculine or feminine?
« stade » is masculine. You say le stade.
Article forms
| With the definite article | le stade |
| With the indefinite article | un stade |
| With the partitive article | du stade |
Plural
The plural is stades (les stades). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.
Why the gender
stade ends in
-ade. Nouns ending in
-ade are usually feminine,
so stade is one of the exceptions: it is
masculine.
The full rules by ending cover every common
suffix.
In a sentence
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Vous aimerez le stade.
You'll like the stadium. -
Le stade est adjacent à l'école.
The stadium is adjacent to the school. -
La foule déferla hors du stade.
The crowd poured out of the stadium.
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 « stade » masculine or feminine?
« stade » is masculine. You say le stade.
Is it « la stade » or « le stade »?
It is « le stade ». « la stade » is incorrect.
Check another word, or read the complete guide to French noun gender.