🇮🇹 Italian

farina

feminine

la farina

flour

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farina
/la faˈriːna/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say farina in Italian?

IPA
/la faˈriːna/

How do you pronounce farina in Italian?

farina is pronounced /la faˈriːna/ in Italian.

Example sentences

La farina bianca è perfetta per fare i dolci delicati.

The white flour is perfect for making delicate sweets.

Questa farina integrale è molto nutriente e consigliata dai nutrizionisti.

This whole wheat flour is very nutritious and recommended by nutritionists.

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Why is it feminine?

Farina is feminine because it derives from Latin "farina" (flour), which belonged to the first declension (-a ending) containing predominantly feminine nouns in Latin. This grammatical gender was preserved when the word passed into Italian and other Romance languages.

What is the Italian word for flour?

The Italian word for flour is la farina — feminine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchfarinelafeminine
🇪🇸 Spanishharinalafeminine
🇵🇹 Portuguesefarinhaafeminine

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