junkie

Is junkie masculine or feminine?

lejunkieexception
/lə ʒœnki/masculinejunkie

The rule behind it

Nouns ending in -ie are usually feminine, but le junkie is masculine.
Junkie is one of the rare exceptions: learn it as it is.
95.7% of -ie nouns are feminine

In context

  • Et dans cette classe on a tous les junkies.

    And in this class we have all the druggies.

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