🇮🇹 Italian

tigri

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feminine

le tigri

tigers

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tigri
/le ˈtiːɡri/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say tigri in Italian?

IPA
/le ˈtiːɡri/

How do you pronounce tigri in Italian?

tigri is pronounced /le ˈtiːɡri/ in Italian.

Example sentences

La tigre bengalese è più grande e più aggressiva del maschio.

The Bengal tiger (female) is larger and more aggressive than the male.

La tigre incinta ha trovato una nuova tana sicura per partorire.

The pregnant tiger found a new safe den to give birth.

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Why is it feminine?

Italian "tigre" is masculine, not feminine. It derives from Latin "tigris," which was grammatically feminine in Latin. However, Italian changed the gender to masculine, likely due to the influence of the -e ending pattern and reanalysis of the word's gender during the transition from Latin to Italian.

What is the Italian word for tigers?

The Italian word for tigers is le tigri — feminine.

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