🇫🇷 French

imprimantes

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

les imprimantes

printers

Try it

imprimantes
/le ɛ̃pʁimɑ̃t/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say imprimantes in French?

IPA
/le ɛ̃pʁimɑ̃t/

How do you pronounce imprimantes in French?

imprimantes is pronounced /le ɛ̃pʁimɑ̃t/ in French.

Example sentences

La nouvelle imprimante est très rapide et efficace.

The new printer is very fast and efficient.

J'ai acheté une imprimante couleur récemment, mais elle est déjà cassée.

I bought a color printer recently, but it is already broken.

Swipe imprimantes in Accord

Swipe through hundreds of words and master grammatical gender in French.

Download on the App Store

Why is it feminine?

Imprimantes is feminine because it ends in "-ante", a feminine suffix in French used to form agent nouns (nouns describing someone or something that performs an action). The word is derived from the verb "imprimer" (to print/to imprint), and the "-ante" suffix creates the feminine form meaning "the machine that prints". This follows the pattern of other French feminine agent nouns like "marchande" (female merchant) and "étudiante" (female student).

What is the French word for printers?

The French word for printers is les imprimantes — feminine.

Practice with Accord

Swipe through hundreds of words and master grammatical gender in French.

Download on the App Store