🇮🇹 Italian

mucche

feminine

le mucche

cows

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mucche
/le ˈmukke/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say mucche in Italian?

IPA
/le ˈmukke/

How do you pronounce mucche in Italian?

mucche is pronounced /le ˈmukke/ 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?

Mucche (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 cows?

The Italian word for cows is le mucche — feminine.

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