Microsoft Designer: hard-boiled eggs and eyebrows.
A nonsensical title – hard-boiled eggs and fake eyebrows – to show what we’ll talk about in this post: Italian nouns that are feminine but not ending in E as you might expect. We covered this topic extensively in the post A Rule of Thumb for Predicting the Gender of Italian Language Nouns. Here, we will talk about a few of those nouns and show them in interesting phrases you see in the Italian language. “Interesting” for those of us learning Italian in that they take a few seconds to process as correct.
I’m interested in those moments - call it a cognitive disconnect/reconnect - when learning a language because it means that some concepts are not yet hardwired as much as I’d like. In this case, when I see the E at the end of the adjective modifying one of these feminine nouns or the article with E in front of the noun, it stops me for a fraction of a second to ask, is that correct.
Being in Bergamo, I’ll use some examples we see:
Other examples:
l'alpe (monte) / le Alpi (catena montuosa europea)
I’m interested in those moments - call it a cognitive disconnect/reconnect - when learning a language because it means that some concepts are not yet hardwired as much as I’d like. In this case, when I see the E at the end of the adjective modifying one of these feminine nouns or the article with E in front of the noun, it stops me for a fraction of a second to ask, is that correct.
Being in Bergamo, I’ll use some examples we see:
- le mura veneziane di Bergamo
- le valli Bergamasche
- la neve nelle Prealpi Bergamasche
Other examples:
l'alpe (monte) / le Alpi (catena montuosa europea)
- la neve sulle Alpi
- le cime delle Alpi
- una passeggiata sulle mura
- le mura veneziane di Bergamo
- i baluardi delle mura di Bergamo
- i biscotti alle ali d'angelo
- sulle ali di un angelo
- l'artrite delle dita
- il formicolio alle dita
- le frasi fatte
- le frasi più belle e interessanti
- le ginocchia di una persona anziana
- le ginocchia sbucciate - “skinned knees”
- l'herpes alle labbra
- le labbra cucite - “my lips are sealed”
- le labbra screpolate
- a mani nude
- le mani vuote
- le nubi estese
- la classificazione delle nubi
- le ossa del corpo umano
- il dolore alle ossa
il sopracciglio / le sopracciglia
- le sopracciglia finte nere naturali invisibili per uomo
- il colore delle tue sopracciglia
- la caccia alle uova
- le uova strapazzate
- le uova sode
- le valli Bergamasche
- nelle valli Bolognesi
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