Is « image » masculine or feminine?
« image » is feminine. You say l'image.
In English, « image » means picture, image.
Article forms
| With the definite article | l'image |
| With the indefinite article | une image |
| With the partitive article | de l'image |
Plural
The plural is images (les images). A noun keeps its gender in the plural; only the article stops showing it.
Why the gender
image ends in
-age. Nouns ending in
-age are usually masculine,
so image is one of the exceptions: it is
feminine.
The full rules by ending cover every common
suffix.
In a sentence
-
Regarde l'image.
Look at the picture. -
Il regardait l'image.
He looked at the picture. -
Je regardais l'image.
I looked at the picture.
Example sentences from Tatoeba, used under CC BY 2.0 FR. Each links to its source sentence.
Related words
Other common nouns that end the same way:
Common questions
Is « image » masculine or feminine?
« image » is feminine. You say l'image.
« l'image » hides the gender. Is « image » masculine or feminine?
It is feminine. The article shortens to « l'image » for both genders, but you say une image, not un image, and adjectives take the feminine form.
Check another word, or read the complete guide to French noun gender.