ambition

Is ambition masculine or feminine?

l'ambition
/lɑ̃bisjɔ̃/feminineambition

The rule behind it

Nouns ending in -tion are feminine.
The suffix forms abstract nouns of action or state.
99.8% of -tion nouns are feminine
Exceptions

These end in -tion too, but they are masculine.

lebastion

In context

  • Sony donne de l'ambition à ses employés.

    Sony inspires ambition among its employees.

  • Il a été victime de sa propre ambition.

    He fell a victim to his own ambition.

  • C'était un homme d'une grande ambition.

    He was a man of great ambition.

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Un autre mot ?

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le ou latablele ou lavoiturele ou lachocolatle ou laeaule ou lafromagele ou lafleurle ou lalivrele ou lajardin
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