Is « visiteur » masculine or feminine?
« visiteur » is masculine. You say le visiteur.
Article forms
| With the definite article | le visiteur |
| With the indefinite article | un visiteur |
| With the partitive article | du visiteur |
Plural
The plural is visiteurs (les visiteurs). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.
Why the gender
visiteur ends in
-teur. Nouns ending in
-teur are usually masculine,
so visiteur follows the pattern.
The full rules by ending cover every common
suffix.
In a sentence
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Tu as des visiteurs.
You have visitors. -
Nous avons un visiteur.
We have a visitor. -
Nous avons des visiteurs.
We have visitors.
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 « visiteur » masculine or feminine?
« visiteur » is masculine. You say le visiteur.
Is it « la visiteur » or « le visiteur »?
It is « le visiteur ». « la visiteur » is incorrect.
Check another word, or read the complete guide to French noun gender.