B2🔤 Letters M & N
Italian word
novella
short story, short prose fiction
Looks like
novel
a full-length work of prose fiction
⚠️ The trap
An Italian 'novella' is a short story, not a full novel. The Italian for a full-length novel is 'romanzo'. Confusing them when discussing literature is a common mistake.
To say "a full-length work of prose fiction" in Italian:
romanzo (for a full novel)
"novella" in English means:
short story, short prose fiction
Example
"Boccaccio scrisse cento novelle nel Decameron."
"Boccaccio wrote a hundred short stories in the Decameron."
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