🇮🇹 Italian

anno

masculine

l' anno

year

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anno
/ˈlanno/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say anno in Italian?

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/ˈlanno/

How do you pronounce anno in Italian?

anno is pronounced /ˈlanno/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Lo anno scorso è stato molto difficile per la nostra azienda.

The past year was very difficult for our company.

L'anno prossimo sarà un anno fantastico pieno di nuove opportunità.

Next year will be a fantastic year full of new opportunities.

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Why is it masculine?

Anno (year) is masculine in Italian because it derives from the Latin "annus," which was a masculine noun of the second declension, and Italian inherited this grammatical gender from Latin. The -o ending in Italian typically signals masculine nouns, reinforcing this gender assignment from the Romance language evolution.

What is the Italian word for year?

The Italian word for year is l' anno — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchannée flips!l'feminine
🇪🇸 Spanishañoelmasculine
🇵🇹 Portugueseanoomasculine

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