docteur

Is docteur masculine or feminine?

ledocteur
/lə dɔktœʁ/masculinedoctor

The rule behind it

Nouns ending in -teur are usually masculine.
The suffix names a person or thing that performs an action.
95.8% of -teur nouns are masculine
Exceptions

These end in -teur too, but they are feminine.

lahauteurlapuanteurlalenteurlapesanteurl'apesanteur

In context

  • D'abord, nous parlerons au docteur Benjamin Burns.

    First, we will talk to Doctor Benjamin Burns.

  • Kenji a abandonné l'espoir de devenir docteur.

    Kenji abandoned his hope of becoming a doctor.

  • Le docteur le guérira peut-être de son cancer.

    That doctor may cure him of his cancer.

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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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