🇮🇹 Italian

mogli

feminine

le mogli

wives

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mogli
/le ˈmɔʎʎi/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say mogli in Italian?

IPA
/le ˈmɔʎʎi/

How do you pronounce mogli in Italian?

mogli is pronounced /le ˈmɔʎʎi/ in Italian.

Example sentences

La moglie italiana è molto elegante e orgogliosa della sua famiglia.

The Italian wife is very elegant and proud of her family.

Sua moglie è stata la prima donna promossa a direttrice in quella azienda.

His wife was the first woman promoted to director in that company.

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Why is it feminine?

Mogli (wife) derives from Latin "mulier" (woman), which is feminine. However, the feminine ending "-e" is not the direct result of the Latin nominative form. The word evolved through Vulgar Latin "moglier" and Old Italian forms, eventually settling on the modern Italian form "moglie" with the feminine ending "-e", which is typical of many Italian feminine nouns. Italian retained the feminine grammatical gender that matched both the Latin origin and the semantic meaning of a female person.

What is the Italian word for wives?

The Italian word for wives is le mogli — feminine.

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