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il cioccolato
chocolate
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How do you say cioccolato in Italian?
How do you pronounce cioccolato in Italian?
cioccolato is pronounced /il tʃokkoˈlaːto/ in Italian.
Example sentences
Il cioccolato scuro è più amaro di quello bianco.
Dark chocolate is more bitter than white chocolate.
Questo cioccolato belga è veramente delizioso e caro.
This Belgian chocolate is truly delicious and expensive.
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Why is it masculine?
Cioccolato is masculine because it derives from Spanish "chocolate," which itself comes from Nahuatl "xocolatl," and when Italian adopted this word in the 17th century, it was assigned masculine gender, likely influenced by the masculine ending "-ato" (similar to words like "gelato" and "piatto"). The gender assignment was essentially arbitrary since it was a loanword from a non-Romance language, but the "-ato" suffix helped establish it as masculine in Italian's grammatical system.
What is the Italian word for chocolate?
The Italian word for chocolate is il cioccolato — masculine.
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