"The excrement" is a literal English equivalent of the Italian phrase la merda. The feminine singular definite article and noun reference "filth" or "human dung." The pronunciation will be "la MER-da" in Italian.
Excrement is an English equivalent of 'merda'. The Italian word is a feminine gender noun that takes as its definite article 'la' ['the'] and as its indefinite article 'una' ['a, one']. It also may be translated as 'filth, human dung'. It's pronounced 'MEHR-dah'.
Merda in Italian means "dung" or "excrement" in English.
La bocca in Italian is "the mouth" in English.
La bella in Italian means "the beautiful" in English.
La vita in Italian means "the life" in English.
La cucina in Italian means "the kitchen" in English.
La volpe in Italian means "the fox" in English.
La libertà in Italian means "liberty" in English.
La gamba in Italian means "the leg" in English.
La padrona in Italian means "the mistress" in English.
La chiesa in Italian means "the church" in English.
La means "the" so la rosa is "the rose" when translated from Catalan, Italian or Spanish to English.
"Brotherhood" in English is la fratellanza in Italian.
"Prairie" in English (la) prateria in Italian.