🇮🇹 Italian

foreste

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feminine

le foreste

forests

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foreste
/le foˈrɛste/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say foreste in Italian?

IPA
/le foˈrɛste/

How do you pronounce foreste in Italian?

foreste is pronounced /le foˈrɛste/ in Italian.

Example sentences

La foresta amazzonica è molto grande e piena di animali rari.

The Amazonian forest is very large and full of rare animals.

Quella foresta antica era bellissima, ma è stata completamente distrutta.

That ancient forest was very beautiful, but it was completely destroyed.

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Why is it feminine?

Foreste is feminine because it derives from Latin "foresta," which was a feminine noun. The word ultimately traces back to Latin "foris" (outside/outdoors), and the feminine gender was preserved through Romance language evolution into Italian. The -a ending in Italian typically signals feminine gender, reinforcing this classification.

What is the Italian word for forests?

The Italian word for forests is le foreste — feminine.

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