🇮🇹 Italian

ambiente

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masculine

l' ambiente

environment

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ambiente
/lamˈbjɛnte/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say ambiente in Italian?

IPA
/lamˈbjɛnte/

How do you pronounce ambiente in Italian?

ambiente is pronounced /lamˈbjɛnte/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Lo ambiente naturale è stato completamente distrutto dalla costruzione.

The natural environment was completely destroyed by construction.

L'ambiente accademico moderno richiede insegnanti preparati e studenti motivati.

The modern academic environment requires prepared teachers and motivated students.

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Why is it masculine?

Ambiente is masculine because it derives from the Latin "ambiens" (present participle of "ambire," meaning "to go around"). In Latin, this participle was nominalized as a neuter noun (ambiens, -entis), following the third-declension pattern. Italian preserved the masculine gender that resulted from sound changes in the Romance language evolution, where many Latin neuter nouns became masculine in Italian.

What is the Italian word for environment?

The Italian word for environment is l' ambiente — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇵🇹 Portugueseambienteomasculine

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