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"to imagine" in seven languages

Meaningto imagine

Spanish

imaginar

/imaxiˈnaɾ/

learned

French

imaginer

/imaʒine/

learned

Italian

immaginare

/immadʒiˈnare/

learned

Portuguese

imaginar

/imaʒiˈnah/

learned

Romanian

imagina

/imadʒiˈna/

learned

Catalan

imaginar

/iməʒiˈna/

learned

English

imagine

/ɪˈmædʒɪn/

from Latin/French · Old French imaginer, from Latin

English → Italianto imagineimmaginareCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share

The Latin ancestor

IMĀGINĀRĪ‘to picture to oneself (IMĀGŌ 'image')’

All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.

The story

To imagine is to make an image (IMĀGŌ) in your head. The g sounds different in each sister — x, ʒ, dʒ — and Italian doubles the m: immaginare, immagine.

English relatives: image, imagination, imaginary

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In a sentence

  • esImagina un mundo sin coches.
  • frImagine un monde sans voitures.
  • itImmagina un mondo senza macchine.
  • ptImagine um mundo sem carros.
  • roImaginează-ți o lume fără mașini.
  • caImagina't un món sense cotxes.
  • enImagine a world without cars.

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