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French Grammar: List of masculine nouns ending in -ée
Generally, nouns ending in -ée are feminine. Eg.: année, armée, cheminée, dictée, fusée, idée.
However, about thirty nouns ending in -ée, often in use, are masculine.
These names, of Latin and Greek origin, were already masculine (or neuter) in these languages. The final "e" is actually a graphic trace of the Latin final -um, which has disappeared.
Eg. : museum became musée, lyceum and became lycée etc.
the "g" indicates the Greek origin
- androcée (g)
- apogée (g)
- athénée (g)
- borée (g)
- caducée (g)
- camée
- chorée (synonyme de trochée) (g)
- colisée (g)
- conopée (g)
- coryphée (g)
- écomusée (g)
- élysée (lieu agréable) (g)
- empyrée (g)
- gynécée (g)
- hyménée (chant nuptial) (g)
- hypogée (g)
- lépidostée (g)
- lépisostée (Poisson holostéen) (g)
- lycée (g)
- macchabée
- mausolée (g)
- musée (g)
- nymphée (g)
- périgée (terrestre) (g)
- périnée (g)
- pongée
- propylée (g)
- Protée (g nom propre)
- prytanée (g)
- pygmée (g)
- scarabée (g)
- sigisbée
- spondée (g)
- stromatée
- trochée (g)
- trophée (g) = monument de victoire, de tropê, déroute)
- worabée (oiseau exotique)
- zée (latin zeus)
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- Use of the definite article with names of languages
- Order of unstressed object pronouns when more than one is present
- Subject verb agreement — Verb agreement with collective noun subjects
- Mass versus count nouns
- Past Participle
- Intransitive Verb constructions
- Use of an année, jour journée, matin matinée, soir soirée
- Position of y and en with negative infinitives
- How to use “et” in cardinal numbers