🇫🇷 French

voyage

masculine

le voyage

trip

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voyage
/lə vwajaʒ/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say voyage in French?

IPA
/lə vwajaʒ/

How do you pronounce voyage in French?

voyage is pronounced /lə vwajaʒ/ in French.

Example sentences

Le voyage était long et fatigant.

The trip was long and tiring. (masculine adjectives: long, fatigant)

Mon dernier voyage en Italie a été merveilleux.

My last trip to Italy was wonderful. (masculine adjectives: dernier, merveilleux)

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Why is it masculine?

Voyage is masculine in French because it derives from Latin "viaticum" (provisions for a journey), which belonged to the neuter gender in Latin but was reanalyzed as masculine when adopted into Old French, likely influenced by the masculine ending "-age" suffix that became productive in French noun formation.

What is the French word for trip?

The French word for trip is le voyage — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇪🇸 Spanishviajeelmasculine
🇮🇹 Italianviaggioilmasculine
🇵🇹 Portugueseviagem flips!afeminine

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