🇮🇹 Italian

vie

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feminine

le vie

streets

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vie
/le ˈviːe/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say vie in Italian?

IPA
/le ˈviːe/

How do you pronounce vie in Italian?

vie is pronounced /le ˈviːe/ in Italian.

Example sentences

La via principale è molto stretta e affollata.

The main street is very narrow and crowded.

Quella via storica è stata completamente restaurata.

That historic street has been completely restored.

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Why is it feminine?

Vie is feminine in Italian because it derives from the Latin noun "via" (feminine), which originally meant "way" or "road" and belonged to the first declension of Latin nouns that were grammatically feminine. This grammatical gender was preserved when Latin evolved into Italian and other Romance languages.

What is the Italian word for streets?

The Italian word for streets is le vie — feminine.

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