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masculine

/pei.zaʒ/

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Translation

landscape, scenery

Word origin

From pays ('country, land') plus -age. The same pattern of formation as English landscape from land.

Origin: French
Root: pays
English cognates: landscape

Grammar

Gendermasculine

Pluralpaysages

Examples

montagneux .

The landscape becomes increasingly mountainous towards the south.

We stopped to admire the view.

The political landscape has changed a great deal in recent years.

Paysage extends into the figurative just as "landscape" does in English: le paysage politique (the political landscape), le paysage audiovisuel (the media landscape).

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