🇮🇹 Italian

diritti

masculine

i diritti

rights

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diritti
/i diˈritti/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say diritti in Italian?

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/i diˈritti/

How do you pronounce diritti in Italian?

diritti is pronounced /i diˈritti/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Il diritto costituzionale italiano è molto complesso e affascinante.

Italian constitutional law is very complex and fascinating. (The masculine adjectives 'costituzionale' and 'complesso' and 'affascinante' agree with the masculine noun 'diritto'; if it were feminine 'la diritra', they would end in -a)

Ho studiato il nuovo diritto del lavoro, che è stato approvato recentemente.

I studied the new labor law, which was recently approved. (The masculine article 'il' and adjective 'nuovo' agree with 'diritto'; the past participle 'approvato' is also masculine, showing the gender agreement extends to the relative clause)

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Why is it masculine?

Diritti is masculine because it derives from the Latin "directum" (neuter noun meaning "that which is straight" or "right"), which became grammatically masculine when absorbed into Italian's two-gender system, following the pattern where many Latin neuter nouns shifted to masculine in Romance languages.

What is the Italian word for rights?

The Italian word for rights is i diritti — masculine.

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