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- "Sei una tigre."
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It just is. Words in Italian are either feminine or masculine - and there's not a lot of rhyme or reason why one word is feminine and another word is masculine.
The Italian words for most animals have masculine gender (un cane, un cavallo, un topo), but not all (una tigre, una scimmia, etc)
For further reading try these: http://italian.about.com/od/grammar/a/gender-of-italian-nouns.htm http://forums.about.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?tsn=2&nav=messages&webtag=ab-italian&tid=9540