🇮🇹 Italian

nuvola

feminine

la nuvola

cloud

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nuvola
/la ˈnuːvola/
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How do you say nuvola in Italian?

IPA
/la ˈnuːvola/

How do you pronounce nuvola in Italian?

nuvola is pronounced /la ˈnuːvola/ in Italian.

Example sentences

La nuvola grigia copre il sole questa mattina.

The gray cloud covers the sun this morning.

Una nuvola bianca e soffice galleggia nel cielo azzurro.

A white and fluffy cloud floats in the blue sky.

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Why is it feminine?

Nuvola is feminine because it derives from Latin "nubila" (feminine singular of "nubes"), which retained the feminine gender through Romance language evolution. Latin words ending in "-a" typically became feminine in Italian, following the pattern of first declension nouns.

What is the Italian word for cloud?

The Italian word for cloud is la nuvola — feminine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchnuage flips!lemasculine
🇪🇸 Spanishnubelafeminine
🇵🇹 Portuguesenuvemafeminine

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