🇮🇹 Italian

luna

feminine

la luna

moon

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luna
/la ˈluːna/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say luna in Italian?

IPA
/la ˈluːna/

How do you pronounce luna in Italian?

luna is pronounced /la ˈluːna/ in Italian.

Example sentences

La luna piena è bellissima questa notte.

The full moon is very beautiful tonight.

Quella luna nuova era così scura che non riuscivamo a vederla.

That new moon was so dark that we couldn't see it.

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Why is it feminine?

Luna is feminine in Italian because it derives from Latin *luna*, which was grammatically feminine. In Latin, first-declension nouns (not second-declension) ending in *-a* were characteristically feminine, and this gender was preserved through the Romance languages into Italian.

What is the Italian word for moon?

The Italian word for moon is la luna — feminine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchlunelafeminine
🇪🇸 Spanishlunalafeminine
🇵🇹 Portugueseluaafeminine

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