🇮🇹 italiano

cioccolato

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masculine

il cioccolato

chocolate

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cioccolato
/il tʃokkoˈlaːto/
← masculine feminine →

¿Cómo se dice cioccolato en italiano?

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/il tʃokkoˈlaːto/

How do you pronounce cioccolato in italiano?

cioccolato is pronounced /il tʃokkoˈlaːto/ in italiano.

Frases de ejemplo

Il cioccolato scuro è più amaro di quello bianco.

Dark chocolate is more bitter than white chocolate.

Questo cioccolato belga è veramente delizioso e caro.

This Belgian chocolate is truly delicious and expensive.

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¿Por qué es masculine?

Cioccolato is masculine because it derives from Spanish "chocolate," which itself comes from Nahuatl "xocolatl," and when Italian adopted this word in the 17th century, it was assigned masculine gender, likely influenced by the masculine ending "-ato" (similar to words like "gelato" and "piatto"). The gender assignment was essentially arbitrary since it was a loanword from a non-Romance language, but the "-ato" suffix helped establish it as masculine in Italian's grammatical system.

¿Cómo se dice chocolate en italiano?

En italiano, chocolate se dice il cioccolato — masculine.

Género según el idioma

IdiomaPalabraArtículoGénero
🇫🇷 Frenchchocolatlemasculine
🇪🇸 Spanishchocolateelmasculine
🇵🇹 Portuguesechocolateomasculine

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