🇮🇹 Italian

cassetto

masculine

il cassetto

drawer

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cassetto
/il kasˈsetto/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say cassetto in Italian?

IPA
/il kasˈsetto/

How do you pronounce cassetto in Italian?

cassetto is pronounced /il kasˈsetto/ 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?

Cassetto 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 drawer?

The Italian word for drawer is il cassetto — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchtiroirlemasculine
🇵🇹 Portuguesegaveta flips!afeminine

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