Polyglot Dictionary

an

/ɑ̃/

le noun A1

le (masc.) la (fem.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Core Domain General Tone Neutral

Forms

plural
les ans

Meaning

  1. year

    • Il a vingt-cinq ans cette année.

      He is twenty-five years old this year.

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

année

an is used with numbers, like "j'ai vingt ans," I am twenty years old; année is used to emphasize duration, like "toute l'année," all year long — a useful grammatical distinction.

Similar in other languages

Spanish

año

año is the Spanish word for the same thing — both mean "year."

Portuguese

ano

ano is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "year."

Practice

1 What does an mean?

2 Fill the gap: Il a vingt-cinq ___ cette année.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches an?

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