Learn Months of the Year in Italian (With Audio)
Learning months in Italian will unlock many other conversation topics, including the weather, yearly routines, and seasonal traditions.
For speakers of other Romance languages and English, Italian months will be pretty straightforward to memorize. As a French and English speaker, this was my case. “January” and gennaio, “February” and febbraio are pretty similar, but still make sure to pay attention to their pronunciations and spelling differences and you’re good to go!
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Months in ItalianItalianEnglishAudioGennaio“January”Febbraio“February”Marzo“March”Aprile“April”Maggio“May”Giugno“June”Luglio“July”AgostoAugust”Settembre“September”Ottobre“October”Novembre“November”Dicembre“December”
Unlike English, Italian doesn’t capitalize the months in the sentence, unless they’re at the very beginning. For example, you would write “It’s cold in January” as Fa freddo a gennaio in Italian. No need to capitalize the g of gennaio.
How to Pronounce the Italian Months of the Year?Italian is a phonetic language. This means that words are pronounced the same way they are written. For example, the letter c gives the sound “ch” in Italian, like the “ch” in “chocolate.” So you would read dicembre (“December”) as di-chem-bre.
Here’s how the other months are pronounced:
Months in ItalianItalianPronunciationAudioGennaio/ʤen’najo/Febbraio/feb’brajo/Marzo/'martso/Aprile/a’prile/Maggio/'madʤo/Giugno/'ʤuɲɲo/Luglio/'luʎʎo/Agosto/a’gosto/Settembre/set’tɛmbre/Ottobre/ot’tobre/Novembre/no’vɛmbre/Dicembre/di’ʧɛmbre/
Seasons and Months in ItalianAll months belong to a season so let’s take the opportunity to learn the Italian seasons, le stagioni, along with some useful sentences covering the months.
Primavera: “Spring”The spring months are marzo, aprile, and maggio.
Marzo è il primo mese di primavera: “March is the first month of spring.”I fiori sono belli in maggio: “The flowers are beautiful in May.”Estate: “Summer”Giugno, luglio and agosto are the summer months.
Dove andrai in vacanza questa estate? “Where will you go on vacation this summer?”Andrò a Firenze a luglio: “I will go to Florence in June.”Autunno: “Autumn/Fall”Settembre, ottobre, and novembre belong to autumn.
Roma è ancora calda in autunno: “Rome is still warm in autumn.”Sono nato/nata a settembre: “I was born in September.”Inverno: “Winter”Last but not least, dicembre, gennaio, and febbraio are the winter months.
Voglio andare a sciare quest’inverno: “I want to go skiing this winter.”A febbraio, andiamo all’Alpe di Siusi per vedere la neve: “In February, we go to Alpe di Siusi to see the snow.”Get Creative With Months in ItalianTop up your knowledge with other common Italian words and try forming new sentences. Research Italian culture to find out what they do each month — for example, take a look at some Italian Christmas traditions for dicembre and try baking a pandolce! This way, you’ll immerse yourself in Italian culture while learning more words!
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