🇮🇹 Italian

fini

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feminine

le fini

ends

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fini
/le ˈfiːni/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say fini in Italian?

IPA
/le ˈfiːni/

How do you pronounce fini in Italian?

fini is pronounced /le ˈfiːni/ in Italian.

Example sentences

La fine della storia era molto triste e inaspettata.

The end of the story was very sad and unexpected.

Quella fine terribile ha cambiato completamente la nostra vita.

That terrible ending completely changed our life.

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Why is it feminine?

Fini is feminine (la fine) because it derives from Latin "finis," which was masculine in gender. However, in Italian, the Latin masculine nominative "finis" evolved into the feminine form "fine." This gender shift occurred during the Romance language evolution, where many Latin masculine nouns ending in -is underwent reanalysis and were reassigned to the feminine -e declension class, similar to words like "parte" and "mente."

What is the Italian word for ends?

The Italian word for ends is le fini — feminine.

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