🇮🇹 Italian

esami

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masculine

gli esami

exams

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esami
/ʎi eˈzaːmi/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say esami in Italian?

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/ʎi eˈzaːmi/

How do you pronounce esami in Italian?

esami is pronounced /ʎi eˈzaːmi/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Lo esame difficile mi ha fatto preoccupare molto.

The difficult exam made me worry a lot.

Ho passato l'esame orale con un voto eccellente.

I passed the oral exam with an excellent grade.

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Why is it masculine?

Esami is masculine because it derives from Latin "examen" (a weighing or examination), which is a neuter noun that became masculine in Italian through regular sound changes and analogy with other masculine nouns ending in -e. The word's gender was influenced by the masculine gender of similar Italian nouns and the loss of the Latin neuter gender in Romance languages.

What is the Italian word for exams?

The Italian word for exams is gli esami — masculine.

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