🇮🇹 Italian

dolore

masculine

il dolore

pain

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dolore
/il doˈloːre/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say dolore in Italian?

IPA
/il doˈloːre/

How do you pronounce dolore in Italian?

dolore is pronounced /il doˈloːre/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Il dolore intenso che ho provato ieri mi ha costretto a rimanere a letto.

The intense pain that I experienced yesterday forced me to stay in bed.

Un dolore acuto e improvviso è arrivato mentre camminavo nel parco.

A sharp and sudden pain arrived while I was walking in the park.

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Why is it masculine?

Dolore is masculine because it derives from the Latin noun "dolor" (masculine, -oris), which belonged to the third declension; Italian retained the masculine gender of its Latin ancestor along with the -e ending characteristic of many masculine third-declension nouns that evolved into modern Italian.

What is the Italian word for pain?

The Italian word for pain is il dolore — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchdouleur flips!lafeminine
🇪🇸 Spanishdolorelmasculine
🇵🇹 Portuguesedor flips!afeminine

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