🇮🇹 Italian

operazione

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feminine

l' operazione

operation

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operazione
/loperaˈtsjoːne/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say operazione in Italian?

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/loperaˈtsjoːne/

How do you pronounce operazione in Italian?

operazione is pronounced /loperaˈtsjoːne/ in Italian.

Example sentences

La operazione chirurgica è stata molto delicata e il chirurgo l'ha completata con successo.

The surgical operation was very delicate and the surgeon completed it successfully.

L'operazione bancaria internazionale è risultata complicata perché richiedeva molti documenti.

The international banking operation turned out to be complicated because it required many documents.

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Why is it feminine?

Operazione is feminine because it derives from Latin "operatio" (nominative), which belonged to the third declension feminine nouns ending in "-tio"—a suffix that consistently produced feminine nouns in Latin and carried that gender into Romance languages like Italian.

What is the Italian word for operation?

The Italian word for operation is l' operazione — feminine.

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