Is page masculine or feminine in French?
It depends on the meaning. Page is feminine when it means a page of a book or a web page: la page, une page, les pages. It is masculine — un page — when it means a page-boy, the young attendant at a medieval court. For almost all modern writing, the one you need is the feminine la page.
Why does page have two genders?
Page is a rare case where gender carries meaning rather than following a spelling rule. The feminine la page (a sheet or side of paper) and the masculine un page (a court attendant) are effectively two different words that happen to be spelled the same. This kind of pair — like le livre (book) versus la livre (pound) — is worth knowing because the article is the only signal of which meaning you intend. In practice, unless you are writing about history or fiction, page is feminine. Note too that the -age ending is usually masculine (le voyage, le message), so the feminine la page is itself an exception.
How do you use page in a sentence?
These use the everyday feminine sense:
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- Ouvrez votre livre à la page trente. (Open your book to page thirty.)
- J’ai lu une page très intéressante. (I read a very interesting page.)
- La première page du site est claire. (The site’s home page is clear.)
The mistake learners make with page
Two things trip learners up: writing le page for a book page (it should be la page), and assuming the -age ending makes it masculine like le voyage. For any modern context — books, documents, websites — use the feminine la page. Reserve un page for the historical page-boy.
When you are unsure of any noun’s gender while writing — in a TCF message, a DELF letter, or everyday French — verify it before you commit it to the page. The French Gender Checker returns the correct article, the plural, and the rule behind the gender for any noun in a single lookup, so a word like page is never a guess again.
