🇮🇹 Italian

felicità

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feminine

la felicità

happiness

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felicità
/la felitʃiˈta/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say felicità in Italian?

IPA
/la felitʃiˈta/

How do you pronounce felicità in Italian?

felicità is pronounced /la felitʃiˈta/ in Italian.

Example sentences

La felicità vera è quella che dura nel tempo.

True happiness is the one that lasts over time. (The feminine adjective 'vera' and article 'la' must agree with the feminine noun 'felicità')

La felicità intensa che ho provato quel giorno era indimenticabile.

The intense happiness that I felt that day was unforgettable. (The feminine adjective 'intensa' and article 'la' must agree with the feminine noun 'felicità')

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Why is it feminine?

Felicità is feminine because it derives from the Latin "felicitas," which was a feminine noun ending in "-itas"—a productive suffix in Latin that consistently produced feminine nouns, and this gender was preserved when the word evolved into Italian.

What is the Italian word for happiness?

The Italian word for happiness is la felicità — feminine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchbonheur flips!lemasculine
🇪🇸 Spanishfelicidadlafeminine
🇵🇹 Portuguesefelicidadeafeminine

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