🇮🇹 Italian

mucca

feminine

la mucca

cow

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mucca
/la ˈmukka/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say mucca in Italian?

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/la ˈmukka/

How do you pronounce mucca in Italian?

mucca is pronounced /la ˈmukka/ in Italian.

Example sentences

La mucca nera è molto produttiva e fornisce il latte più cremoso della fattoria.

The black cow is very productive and provides the creamiest milk on the farm.

Quella mucca marrone è incinta e partorirà tra poche settimane.

That brown cow is pregnant and will give birth in a few weeks.

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Why is it feminine?

Mucca (cow) is feminine because it derives from Latin "mucca," which was already feminine in gender, following the Latin first declension (-a ending) that typically assigned feminine gender to nouns. The gender persisted through the evolution from Latin to Italian, where -a endings generally remain feminine.

What is the Italian word for cow?

The Italian word for cow is la mucca — feminine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchvachelafeminine
🇪🇸 Spanishvacalafeminine
🇵🇹 Portuguesevacaafeminine

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