🇮🇹 Italian

cassetti

masculine

i cassetti

drawers

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cassetti
/i kasˈsetti/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say cassetti in Italian?

IPA
/i kasˈsetti/

How do you pronounce cassetti in Italian?

cassetti is pronounced /i kasˈsetti/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Il cassetto superiore è pieno di documenti importanti.

The upper drawer is full of important documents.

Ho trovato il mio cassetto preferito completamente vuoto e disordinato.

I found my favorite drawer completely empty and messy.

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Why is it masculine?

Cassetti is masculine because it derives from the Latin "capsa" (feminine, meaning "box"), but when Italian formed the diminutive with the suffix "-etto" (a masculine diminutive), the resulting word took masculine gender—a common pattern where diminutives in "-etto" are typically masculine regardless of their source word's gender.

What is the Italian word for drawers?

The Italian word for drawers is i cassetti — masculine.

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