🇮🇹 Italian

pazienza

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feminine

la pazienza

patience

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pazienza
/la patˈtsjɛnʦa/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say pazienza in Italian?

IPA
/la patˈtsjɛnʦa/

How do you pronounce pazienza in Italian?

pazienza is pronounced /la patˈtsjɛnʦa/ in Italian.

Example sentences

La pazienza è una virtù molto importante e preziosa.

Patience is a very important and precious virtue.

Ho perso la mia pazienza con quella ragazza scortese.

I lost my patience with that rude girl.

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Why is it feminine?

Pazienza is feminine because it derives from the Latin feminine noun "patientia" (endurance, suffering), which inherited the first-declension -a ending that typically marked feminine nouns in Latin. This Latin feminine ending naturally became the Italian feminine -a suffix, making "pazienza" grammatically feminine.

What is the Italian word for patience?

The Italian word for patience is la pazienza — feminine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchpatiencelafeminine
🇪🇸 Spanishpaciencialafeminine
🇵🇹 Portuguesepaciênciaafeminine

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