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.
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.