🇮🇹 Italian

lune

feminine

le lune

moons

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lune
/le ˈluːne/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say lune in Italian?

IPA
/le ˈluːne/

How do you pronounce lune in Italian?

lune is pronounced /le ˈluːne/ 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?

Lune 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 moons?

The Italian word for moons is le lune — feminine.

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