maladie

Is maladie masculine or feminine?

lamaladie
/la maladi/feminineillness

The rule behind it

Nouns ending in -ie are usually feminine.
The suffix often names an abstract quality, an activity, or a discipline.
95.7% of -ie nouns are feminine
Exceptions

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

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In context

  • La vie est une maladie mortelle sexuellement transmissible.

    Life is a fatal sexually transmitted disease.

  • Actuellement, la cause de la maladie reste inconnue.

    At present, the cause of the disease is unknown.

  • Mary a continué à travailler malgré sa maladie.

    Mary kept on working in spite of her illness.

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