Is « trophée » masculine or feminine?
« trophée » is masculine. You say le trophée.
Article forms
| With the definite article | le trophée |
| With the indefinite article | un trophée |
| With the partitive article | du trophée |
Plural
The plural is trophées (les trophées). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.
Why the gender
trophée ends in
-ée. Nouns ending in
-ée are usually feminine,
so trophée is one of the exceptions: it is
masculine.
The full rules by ending cover every common
suffix.
In a sentence
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Tom a chopé un trophée.
Tom won a trophy. -
As-tu remporté le trophée ?
Did you win the trophy? -
C'est un trophée immense.
That's a huge trophy.
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 « trophée » masculine or feminine?
« trophée » is masculine. You say le trophée.
Is it « la trophée » or « le trophée »?
It is « le trophée ». « la trophée » is incorrect.
Check another word, or read the complete guide to French noun gender.