Meaning
landslide
- a mass of earth or rock falling down a slope
- a landslide blocking a road or area
In a sentence
Una frana ha bloccato la strada di montagna.
A landslide blocked the mountain road.
Hai sentito della frana vicino al paese?
Did you hear about the landslide near the village?
Per fortuna oggi non c'è stata nessuna frana.
Luckily there wasn’t any landslide today.
Word forms (2)
| Word | Word forms |
|---|---|
| frana | feminine · singular |
| frane | feminine · plural |
Usage notes
- A natural-disaster word; common with cadere, provocare, bloccare.
- Often used in singular for one event: una frana ha chiuso la strada.
- Not to confuse with freno or frattura.