🇫🇷 French

image

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

l' image

image

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image
/limaʒ/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say image in French?

IPA
/limaʒ/

How do you pronounce image in French?

image is pronounced /limaʒ/ in French.

Example sentences

L'image est très belle et elle inspire tous les artistes.

The image is very beautiful and it inspires all the artists.

L'image ancienne que j'ai trouvée était complètement décolorée.

The old image that I found was completely discolored.

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Why is it feminine?

Image is feminine in French because it derives from the Latin *imago* (feminine), which was grammatically feminine in the Latin third declension and retained that gender through Old French into modern French. The feminine ending *-e* in French also reinforces this classification, though the gender was already established through Latin inheritance rather than determined by the suffix.

What is the French word for image?

The French word for image is l' image — feminine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇪🇸 Spanishimagenlafeminine
🇮🇹 Italianimmaginel'feminine
🇵🇹 Portugueseimagemafeminine

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