cachette

Is cachette masculine or feminine?

lacachette
/la kaʃɛt/femininehideaway

The rule behind it

Nouns ending in -ette are usually feminine.
The suffix often forms a diminutive.
99.3% of -ette nouns are feminine
Exceptions

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

lesquelette

In context

  • Les chiens levèrent le renard de sa cachette.

    The hounds flushed the fox out of its hiding place.

  • Il fallut une semaine pour localiser leur cachette.

    It took one week to locate their hiding place.

  • Elle a trahi sa cachette à la police.

    She betrayed his hiding place to the police.

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