🇮🇹 Italian

bottoni

masculine

i bottoni

buttons

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bottoni
/i botˈtoːni/
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How do you say bottoni in Italian?

IPA
/i botˈtoːni/

How do you pronounce bottoni in Italian?

bottoni is pronounced /i botˈtoːni/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Il bottone rosso della mia camicia si è staccato stamattina.

The red button of my shirt came off this morning.

Questo bottone è troppo grande per il buco della giacca.

This button is too big for the buttonhole of the jacket.

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Why is it masculine?

Bottoni is masculine. While the word does derive from Romance roots related to buttons/knobs, the masculine gender is primarily due to the productive Italian suffix "-one," which is characteristically masculine and is commonly used to form masculine nouns from various stems. The gender is a feature of Italian morphology rather than a direct preservation of a specific Latin masculine noun.

What is the Italian word for buttons?

The Italian word for buttons is i bottoni — masculine.

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