🇫🇷 French

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 →

How do you say tigre in French?

IPA
/lə tiɡʁ/

How do you pronounce tigre in French?

tigre is pronounced /lə tiɡʁ/ in French.

Example sentences

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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Why is it 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.

What is the French word for tiger?

The French word for tiger is le tigre — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇪🇸 Spanishtigreelmasculine
🇮🇹 Italiantigre flips!lafeminine

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