birra
la birra
beer
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How do you say birra in Italian?
How do you pronounce birra in Italian?
birra is pronounced /la ˈbirra/ in Italian.
Example sentences
La birra italiana è molto più scura e amara di quella tedesca.
Italian beer is much darker and more bitter than German beer.
Quella birra belga che abbiamo bevuto ieri era davvero eccellente e rinfrescante.
That Belgian beer we drank yesterday was truly excellent and refreshing.
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Why is it feminine?
Birra is feminine in Italian. It is feminine primarily because it ends in "-a", which is the most common feminine singular ending in Italian. The word was borrowed from Germanic languages (likely Middle High German "bier") into Italian, where it was assigned feminine gender following the standard pattern for "-a" ending nouns.
What is the Italian word for beer?
The Italian word for beer is la birra — feminine.
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