🇪🇸 Spanish

imagen

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

la imagen

image

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imagen
/la iˈmaxen/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say imagen in Spanish?

IPA
/la iˈmaxen/

How do you pronounce imagen in Spanish?

imagen is pronounced /la iˈmaxen/ in Spanish.

Example sentences

La imagen antigua fue restaurada cuidadosamente por el museo.

The ancient image was carefully restored by the museum.

Esa imagen borrosa necesita ser mejorada digitalmente.

That blurry image needs to be digitally enhanced.

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Why is it feminine?

Imagen is feminine because it derives from the Latin "imago" (accusative: imaginem), which was a feminine noun, and Spanish preserved this gender when the word evolved phonetically from imaginem to imagen. This is a regular inheritance rather than an exception—Spanish consistently maintains the gender of Latin nouns through their evolution.

What is the Spanish word for image?

The Spanish word for image is la imagen — feminine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchimagel'feminine
🇮🇹 Italianimmaginel'feminine
🇵🇹 Portugueseimagemafeminine

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