🇮🇹 Italian

debito

masculine

il debito

debt

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debito
/il ˈdɛːbito/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say debito in Italian?

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/il ˈdɛːbito/

How do you pronounce debito in Italian?

debito is pronounced /il ˈdɛːbito/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Il debito pubblico italiano è molto grande e preoccupante.

The Italian public debt is very large and worrying.

Ho pagato il debito arretrato che era rimasto impagato per anni.

I paid the outstanding debt that had remained unpaid for years.

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Why is it masculine?

Debito is masculine because it derives from the Latin "debitum" (neuter nominative form of "debitus"), which became masculine in Italian following the general sound-shift pattern where Latin neuter nouns ending in "-um" were reinterpreted as masculine "-o" endings in Romance languages.

What is the Italian word for debt?

The Italian word for debt is il debito — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchdette flips!lafeminine
🇪🇸 Spanishdeuda flips!lafeminine

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