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frutta

fruit

noun FROOT-tah Rare
Food & Drink Fruits

Origin: Latin fructa (plural of fructus, 'fruit'), treated as a collective feminine in Italian.

Usage Note

Frutta is a collective noun, grammatically singular and feminine — you say la frutta è fresca (the fruit is fresh), not a plural verb. For individual pieces use un frutto (a piece of fruit, or figuratively a result). Do not confuse frutta (the food category) with il frutto (a single fruit or abstract result like il frutto del lavoro).

Examples

"Mangio molta frutta ogni giorno."

Natural Translation

I eat a lot of fruit every day.

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