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le galline
hens
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How do you say galline in Italian?
How do you pronounce galline in Italian?
galline is pronounced /le ɡalˈliːne/ in Italian.
Example sentences
La gallina rossa ha deposto un uovo grande questa mattina.
The red hen laid a large egg this morning.
Quella gallina bianca è molto produttiva e la mia preferita.
That white hen is very productive and my favorite one.
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Why is it feminine?
Galline is feminine in Italian because it derives from Latin "gallīna," which was grammatically feminine and referred specifically to a female chicken, while the masculine "gallus" meant rooster—a gender distinction that Romance languages inherited directly from Latin's biological and linguistic categorization of these animals.
What is the Italian word for hens?
The Italian word for hens is le galline — feminine.
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