Is « unité » masculine or feminine?
« unité » is feminine. You say l'unité.
Article forms
| With the definite article | l'unité |
| With the indefinite article | une unité |
| With the partitive article | de l'unité |
Plural
The plural is unités (les unités). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.
Why the gender
unité ends in
-té. Nouns ending in
-té are usually feminine,
so unité follows the pattern.
The full rules by ending cover every common
suffix.
In a sentence
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La force dans l'unité.
Strength in unity. -
La force est dans l'unité.
In unity is strength. -
Une livre est une unité de poids.
A pound is a unit of weight.
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Related words
Other common nouns that end the same way:
Common questions
Is « unité » masculine or feminine?
« unité » is feminine. You say l'unité.
« l'unité » hides the gender. Is « unité » masculine or feminine?
It is feminine. The article shortens to « l'unité » for both genders, but you say une unité, not un unité, and adjectives take the feminine form.
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