🇮🇹 Italian

cieli

masculine

i cieli

skies

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cieli
/i ˈtʃɛːli/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say cieli in Italian?

IPA
/i ˈtʃɛːli/

How do you pronounce cieli in Italian?

cieli is pronounced /i ˈtʃɛːli/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Il cielo azzurro è bellissimo questa sera.

The blue sky is very beautiful this evening.

Ho visto un cielo stellato splendido durante la notte.

I saw a splendid starry sky during the night.

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Why is it masculine?

Cieli is masculine because it derives from Latin "caelum," which was a neuter noun, but Italian neuter nouns generally shifted to masculine gender during the language's evolution from Latin. This gender reassignment was a regular pattern as Italian developed its two-gender system.

What is the Italian word for skies?

The Italian word for skies is i cieli — masculine.

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