Is « image » masculine or feminine?

« image » is feminine. You say l'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.

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.


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