🇮🇹 italien

centro

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masculine

il centro

center

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centro
/il ˈtʃɛntro/
← masculine feminine →

Comment dit-on centro en italien ?

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/il ˈtʃɛntro/

How do you pronounce centro in italien?

centro is pronounced /il ˈtʃɛntro/ in italien.

Exemples de phrases

Il centro storico è molto affollato durante il fine settimana.

The historic downtown is very crowded during the weekend.

Il centro commerciale nuovo è stato inaugurato ieri ed è già pieno di clienti.

The new shopping center was inaugurated yesterday and is already full of customers.

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Pourquoi est-ce masculine ?

Centro is masculine in Italian. It derives from Latin "centrum," which was originally a neuter noun in classical Latin. However, the rule stated is misleading: Italian -o endings typically signal masculine gender, and "centro" follows this regular pattern. Words ending in -o are consistently masculine in Italian, regardless of their Latin gender. The etymology from Latin "centrum" and ultimately from Greek "kentron" (κέντρον) is accurate, but the explanation conflates historical Latin gender with modern Italian gender assignment. The word is masculine primarily because it follows the productive -o masculine ending pattern in modern Italian, not because of a special "gender reassignment" process.

Comment dit-on center en italien ?

En italien, center se dit il centro — masculine.

Genre selon les langues

LangueMotArticleGenre
🇵🇹 Portuguesecentroomasculine

Pratiquez avec Accord

Faites glisser des centaines de mots et maîtrisez le genre grammatical en italien.

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