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la morte
death
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How do you say morte in Italian?
How do you pronounce morte in Italian?
morte is pronounced /la ˈmɔrte/ in Italian.
Example sentences
La morte improvvisa della regina ha sorpreso tutta la nazione.
The sudden death of the queen surprised the entire nation.
Una morte così tragica e inaspettata ha lasciato la famiglia completamente devastata.
Such a tragic and unexpected death left the family completely devastated.
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Why is it feminine?
Morte is feminine in Italian because it derives from Latin "mors, mortis," which was feminine in the Latin third declension, and Italian retained this grammatical gender when the word evolved. The feminine gender persisted across most Romance languages (French "mort" is masculine, Spanish "muerte" is feminine, Romanian "moarte" is feminine) as these languages inherited the Latin classification.
What is the Italian word for death?
The Italian word for death is la morte — feminine.
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