française

Française is the feminine form of the French adjective français. It is used to describe feminine nouns and to indicate the feminine form of nationality for a person from France. In French, adjectives agree with the gender and number of the nouns they modify, so the masculine form français corresponds to the feminine française for feminine nouns. Examples: une femme française; la langue française; la cuisine française; une personne française; elle est française.

Française also appears in compound terms that express nationality or culture, such as langue française, culture française, and révolution française. The meaning is the same as its masculine counterpart in these phrases.

In terms of capitalization, française is written in lower case in general usage, and is capitalized only if it begins a sentence or appears in a title or proper noun context. As a demonym, française denotes a woman from France (in French), while in English it would usually be translated as Frenchwoman.