🇮🇹 Italian

plastica

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feminine

la plastica

plastic

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plastica
/la ˈplastika/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say plastica in Italian?

IPA
/la ˈplastika/

How do you pronounce plastica in Italian?

plastica is pronounced /la ˈplastika/ in Italian.

Example sentences

La plastica rossa è molto leggera e facile da trasportare.

The red plastic is very light and easy to transport.

Questa plastica trasparente è perfetta per creare una finestra nuova.

This transparent plastic is perfect for creating a new window.

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Why is it feminine?

Plastica is feminine because it derives from the Latin feminine noun "plastica" (from Greek "plastikē"), which referred to the art of molding or shaping, and Italian retained the feminine gender from its Latin source along with the -a ending typical of first-declension feminine nouns.

What is the Italian word for plastic?

The Italian word for plastic is la plastica — feminine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchplastique flips!lemasculine
🇪🇸 Spanishplástico flips!elmasculine
🇵🇹 Portugueseplástico flips!omasculine

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