English-French translations for masculine

• masculin
  L'UE ne doit pas devenir une Union à visage masculin. The EU must not take on a masculine persona.
  Nous devons impliquer davantage les femmes dans la formation professionnelle, dans les sciences et dans les domaines d'éducation qui ont été considérés jusqu'à présent comme "masculins". We need to involve more women in vocational training, the sciences and educational fields that have been until now considered as 'masculine'.
• viril

Definition of masculine

• Of or pertaining to the male gender; manly
• Belonging to males; typically used by males
• Having the qualities stereotypically associated with men: virile, aggressive, not effeminate
• Of, pertaining or belonging to the male grammatical gender, in languages that have gender distinctions
• The masculine gender
• A word of the masculine gender
• That which is masculine
• A man

Examples

• The noun Student is masculine in German
• German uses the masculine form of the definite article, der, with Student

Related words

• unmasculine
• hypermasculine
• masculinely
• antimasculine
• masculine gender
• masculine noun
• masculine personal