personnage

Is personnage masculine or feminine?

lepersonnage
/lə pɛʁsonaʒ/masculinecharacter

The rule behind it

Nouns ending in -age are usually masculine.
The suffix often marks an action, a result, or a collection.
98.8% of -age nouns are masculine
Exceptions

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

l'imagelaplage

In context

  • J'ai toujours plus apprécié les personnages mystérieux.

    I always liked mysterious characters more.

  • Tous les personnages de ce livre sont imaginaires.

    All the characters in this book are imaginary.

  • Il est autant un mythe qu'un personnage.

    He is a figment as much as a figure.

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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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