🇮🇹 Italian

cliente

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masculine

il cliente

client

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cliente
/il kliˈɛnte/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say cliente in Italian?

IPA
/il kliˈɛnte/

How do you pronounce cliente in Italian?

cliente is pronounced /il kliˈɛnte/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Il cliente italiano è molto soddisfatto del nostro servizio.

The Italian client is very satisfied with our service.

Un cliente nuovo ha chiesto uno sconto speciale per il primo ordine.

A new client asked for a special discount for his first order.

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Why is it masculine?

Cliente can be masculine or feminine in Italian depending on the person being referred to. While it derives from Latin "cliens" (nominative singular), which was grammatically masculine, modern Italian treats "cliente" as a common gender noun that takes the masculine article "il" but can refer to people of any gender. The gender is determined by the biological sex of the person, not by a fixed grammatical assignment. The word originally referred to a person under the protection of a patron in Roman society.

What is the Italian word for client?

The Italian word for client is il cliente — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchclientlemasculine
🇪🇸 Spanishclienteelmasculine

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