🇫🇷 français

tigre

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

le tigre

tiger

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tigre
/lə tiɡʁ/
← masculine feminine →

Comment dit-on tigre en français ?

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/lə tiɡʁ/

How do you pronounce tigre in français?

tigre is pronounced /lə tiɡʁ/ in français.

Exemples de phrases

Le tigre bengali est plus grand que la tigresse bengale.

The Bengal tiger (male) is larger than the Bengal tigress (female).

Ce tigre noir et magnifique a été capturé par les chercheurs.

This black and magnificent tiger (male) was captured by researchers.

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Pourquoi est-ce masculine ?

Tigre is masculine in French. While it does derive from Latin "tigris," which was borrowed from Greek "tigris" (τίγρις), the gender assignment in French is better explained by the word's Latin origin as a masculine noun (tigris, -is) and the general pattern that most French nouns ending in -e that come from Latin masculine nouns of the third declension tend to retain masculine gender, despite the -e ending often being associated with feminine nouns in modern French.

Comment dit-on tiger en français ?

En français, tiger se dit le tigre — masculine.

Genre selon les langues

LangueMotArticleGenre
🇪🇸 Spanishtigreelmasculine
🇮🇹 Italiantigre flips!lafeminine

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