🇮🇹 Italian

dubbio

masculine

il dubbio

doubt

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dubbio
/il ˈdubbjo/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say dubbio in Italian?

IPA
/il ˈdubbjo/

How do you pronounce dubbio in Italian?

dubbio is pronounced /il ˈdubbjo/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Il dubbio profondo che ho avuto mi ha impedito di prendere una decisione.

The deep doubt that I had prevented me from making a decision.

Questo dubbio persistente è rimasto irrisolto per molto tempo.

This persistent doubt remained unresolved for a long time.

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Why is it masculine?

Dubbio is masculine because it derives from the Latin "dubium" (neuter), which became masculine in Italian when the neuter gender collapsed into the masculine during the Romance language evolution. The word retained masculine gender agreement patterns as Latin's neuter nouns were systematically absorbed into the masculine gender system.

What is the Italian word for doubt?

The Italian word for doubt is il dubbio — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchdoutelemasculine
🇪🇸 Spanishduda flips!lafeminine
🇵🇹 Portuguesedúvida flips!afeminine

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