🇮🇹 Italian

gonna

feminine

la gonna

skirt

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gonna
/la ˈɡɔnna/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say gonna in Italian?

IPA
/la ˈɡɔnna/

How do you pronounce gonna in Italian?

gonna is pronounced /la ˈɡɔnna/ in Italian.

Example sentences

La gonna rossa è troppo corta per l'occasione formale.

The red skirt is too short for the formal occasion.

Quella gonna blu che ho comprato ieri è molto elegante e comoda.

That blue skirt that I bought yesterday is very elegant and comfortable.

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Why is it feminine?

Gonna (skirt) is feminine because it derives from Latin "gunna," which was already feminine in Late Latin, likely borrowed from Germanic languages where the word retained feminine gender when adopted into Romance languages. The feminine ending "-a" in Italian also reinforced this classification once the word became established in the language.

What is the Italian word for skirt?

The Italian word for skirt is la gonna — feminine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchjupelafeminine
🇪🇸 Spanishfaldalafeminine
🇵🇹 Portuguesesaiaafeminine

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