🇮🇹 Italian

rose

Did you know? This word is a cognate — it looks similar in English and has the same meaning. Cognates are usually easier to remember!
feminine

le rose

roses

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rose
/le ˈrɔːze/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say rose in Italian?

IPA
/le ˈrɔːze/

How do you pronounce rose in Italian?

rose is pronounced /le ˈrɔːze/ in Italian.

Example sentences

La rosa rossa è bellissima nel giardino della mia nonna.

The red rose is very beautiful in my grandmother's garden.

Quella rosa profumata è stata regalata da un ammiratore segreto.

That fragrant rose was given as a gift by a secret admirer.

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Why is it feminine?

Rose is feminine because it descends from Latin "rosa" (the flower), which was feminine in the first declension (nominative singular -a ending), and Italian retained the feminine gender of words ending in -a from this Latin class. The Latin word itself was borrowed from Greek "rhodon," but the gender assignment follows the regular Romance language pattern where first declension nouns became feminine.

What is the Italian word for roses?

The Italian word for roses is le rose — feminine.

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