Meaning
novel
In a sentence
Sto leggendo un romanzo davvero interessante.
I'm reading a really interesting novel.
Hai finito quel romanzo che ti piaceva tanto?
Did you finish that novel you liked so much?
Questo romanzo è molto famoso in Italia.
This novel is very famous in Italy.
Word forms (2)
| Word | Word forms |
|---|---|
| romanzo | masculine · singular |
| romanzi | masculine · plural |
Usage notes
- For a book, use romanzo. For a short story, use racconto; for a generic book, use libro.
- For a love relationship, romanzo sounds literary or old-fashioned; relazione or storia d'amore is more common in everyday speech.
- As a noun for Romance languages, it's usually plural: le lingue romanze, not *i romanzi.