🇮🇹 Italian

canale

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masculine

il canale

channel

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canale
/il kaˈnaːle/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say canale in Italian?

IPA
/il kaˈnaːle/

How do you pronounce canale in Italian?

canale is pronounced /il kaˈnaːle/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Il canale principale è stato pulito completamente.

The main channel was completely cleaned.

Abbiamo trovato un canale sotterraneo molto antico sotto la città.

We found a very ancient underground channel beneath the city.

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Why is it masculine?

Canale is masculine because it derives from Latin "canalis" (a water channel or pipe), which was a masculine noun in Latin, and Italian generally preserves the gender of its Latin etymons. The Latin word itself likely came from a root meaning "to conduct" or "to channel," and masculine gender was the default for many Latin agent and object nouns.

What is the Italian word for channel?

The Italian word for channel is il canale — masculine.

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