🇮🇹 Italian

speranza

feminine

la speranza

hope

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speranza
/la speˈrantsa/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say speranza in Italian?

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/la speˈrantsa/

How do you pronounce speranza in Italian?

speranza is pronounced /la speˈrantsa/ in Italian.

Example sentences

La speranza è una virtù umana molto importante perché ci dà forza nei momenti difficili.

Hope is a very important human virtue because it gives us strength in difficult moments.

L'ultima speranza rimasta era fragile e delicata, ma non l'abbiamo mai abbandonata.

The last hope that remained was fragile and delicate, but we never abandoned it.

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Why is it feminine?

Speranza is feminine because it derives from the Latin noun "sperantia" (hope), which belonged to the first declension (-a ending) and was grammatically feminine in Latin—a gender that Italian preserved when the word evolved into modern "speranza." This reflects the general rule that Latin first-declension nouns became feminine nouns in Romance languages.

What is the Italian word for hope?

The Italian word for hope is la speranza — feminine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchespoir flips!l'masculine
🇪🇸 Spanishesperanzalafeminine
🇵🇹 Portugueseesperançaafeminine

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