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giardino

garden

noun jahr-DEE-noh Less Common

Origin: from Germanic 'gard', enclosure

Usage Note

Giardino is an ornamental or domestic garden, plural giardini; a vegetable plot is instead an orto. A giardino d'infanzia is a kindergarten, and a zoo is a giardino zoologico. The g before i is soft, like English 'j'.

Examples

"I bambini giocano in giardino."

Natural Translation

The children are playing in the garden.

Literal Translation

The children play in garden.

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