🇮🇹 Italian

birre

Birre is feminine in Italian. The article is le, so the full form is le birre ("beers").

FEMININE

birre is the plural of birra

le birre — beers

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birre
/le ˈbirre/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say birre in Italian?

IPA
/le ˈbirre/

How do you pronounce birre in Italian?

birre is pronounced /le ˈbirre/ 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?

Birre 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 beers?

The Italian word for beers is le birre — feminine.

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