🇫🇷 français

musique

Did you know? This word is a cognate — it looks similar in English and has the same meaning. Cognates are usually easier to remember!
feminine

la musique

music

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musique
/la myzik/
← masculine feminine →

Comment dit-on musique en français ?

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/la myzik/

How do you pronounce musique in français?

musique is pronounced /la myzik/ in français.

Exemples de phrases

La musique classique est très relaxante.

Classical music is very relaxing. (The feminine adjective 'classique' and article 'la' agree with the feminine noun 'musique')

Cette musique moderne plaît beaucoup aux jeunes.

This modern music pleases young people a lot. (The feminine demonstrative 'cette' and feminine adjective 'moderne' must agree with 'musique'; without this agreement, the sentence would be grammatically incorrect)

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Pourquoi est-ce feminine ?

Musique is feminine because it derives from Latin "musica," which was feminine in gender, and French retained this grammatical gender when the word evolved through sound changes (the Latin -a ending typically becomes feminine in French). This inheritance from Latin's three-gender system explains most French noun genders, though the original reason Latin assigned "musica" to the feminine is lost to history.

Comment dit-on music en français ?

En français, music se dit la musique — feminine.

Genre selon les langues

LangueMotArticleGenre
🇪🇸 Spanishmúsicalafeminine
🇮🇹 Italianmusicalafeminine
🇵🇹 Portuguesemúsicaafeminine

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