borghese

/borˈɡe.ze/adjective / nounB2

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Significado · adjective

middle-class, bourgeois; civilian

Viveva in un tranquillo quartiere borghese alla periferia della città.
He lived in a quiet middle-class neighborhood on the outskirts of town.

I poliziotti indossavano abiti borghesi per non dare nell'occhio.
The police officers wore civilian clothes to avoid attracting attention.

I suoi ideali non corrispondevano affatto alla mentalità borghese del tempo.
His ideals did not match the bourgeois mentality of the time at all.

Formas de la palabra (4)

Invariable in gender: 'un quartiere borghese', 'una famiglia borghese'; the plural is 'borghesi'.
The prepositional phrase 'in borghese' means in plain clothes or undercover.

middle-class person, civilian

I due poliziotti lavorano in borghese oggi.
The two police officers are working in plain clothes today.

Non tutti i borghesi condividevano le stesse idee politiche.
Not all middle-class people shared the same political ideas.

Perché quell'agente è vestito in borghese?
Why is that officer dressed in plain clothes?

Formas de la palabra (2)

Palabra	Formas de la palabra
borghese	singular
borghesi	plural

In the phrase 'in borghese', it refers to police officers working in plain clothes.
It can function both as a noun and as an adjective.