🇮🇹 Italian

carota

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feminine

la carota

carrot

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carota
/la kaˈrɔːta/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say carota in Italian?

IPA
/la kaˈrɔːta/

How do you pronounce carota in Italian?

carota is pronounced /la kaˈrɔːta/ in Italian.

Example sentences

La carota arancione è più dolce della carota bianca.

The orange carrot is sweeter than the white carrot.

Quella carota fresca che ho comprato ieri era davvero buona.

That fresh carrot that I bought yesterday was really good.

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Why is it feminine?

Carota is feminine because it derives from Latin "carota," which was itself borrowed from Greek "karōton" and retained the feminine grammatical gender of the Latin noun; most Italian nouns ending in "-a" are feminine, following the pattern of Latin first-declension nouns.

What is the Italian word for carrot?

The Italian word for carrot is la carota — feminine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchcarottelafeminine
🇪🇸 Spanishzanahorialafeminine
🇵🇹 Portuguesecenouraafeminine

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