🇮🇹 Italian

notte

feminine

la notte

night

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notte
/la ˈnɔtte/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say notte in Italian?

IPA
/la ˈnɔtte/

How do you pronounce notte in Italian?

notte is pronounced /la ˈnɔtte/ in Italian.

Example sentences

La notte buia era fredda e silenziosa.

The dark night was cold and silent.

Durante la notte stellata, abbiamo visto la luna piena splendida.

During the starry night, we saw the full moon splendid.

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Why is it feminine?

Notte is feminine because it derives from Latin "nox, noctis," which was a third-declension feminine noun. Italian preserved this grammatical gender through its evolution from Vulgar Latin. The word developed from the Latin nominative/accusative form and retained its feminine classification in the Romance language evolution.

What is the Italian word for night?

The Italian word for night is la notte — feminine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchnuitlafeminine
🇪🇸 Spanishnochelafeminine
🇵🇹 Portuguesenoiteafeminine

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