Is « volonté » masculine or feminine?
« volonté » is feminine. You say la volonté.
Article forms
| With the definite article | la volonté |
| With the indefinite article | une volonté |
| With the partitive article | de la volonté |
Plural
The plural is volontés (les volontés). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.
Why the gender
volonté ends in
-té. Nouns ending in
-té are usually feminine,
so volonté follows the pattern.
The full rules by ending cover every common
suffix.
In a sentence
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Il a une volonté de fer.
He has a will of steel. -
La volonté de Dieu d'abord.
God's will first. -
La volonté de Dieu se réalise.
What God wills happens.
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 « volonté » masculine or feminine?
« volonté » is feminine. You say la volonté.
Is it « le volonté » or « la volonté »?
It is « la volonté ». « le volonté » is incorrect.
Check another word, or read the complete guide to French noun gender.