île

Meaning

island

Gender

♀️ Feminine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/il/

Etymology

Originally written isle; from Middle French isle, from Old French isle, from Vulgar Latin *īsula, from Classical Latin īnsula. Compare isoler, péninsule and insulaire.

Sentences

Là vit la quasi totalité de la population de cette île .

There lives almost the entire population of this island.

L'été, sur une île de Bretagne , deux jeunes filles en vacances .

In the summer, on an island in Brittany, two young girls are on holiday.