🇮🇹 Italian

fallimento

masculine

il fallimento

failure

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fallimento
/il falliˈmento/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say fallimento in Italian?

IPA
/il falliˈmento/

How do you pronounce fallimento in Italian?

fallimento is pronounced /il falliˈmento/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Il fallimento aziendale è stato molto grave e ha rovinato molte famiglie.

The company bankruptcy was very serious and ruined many families.

Quel fallimento commerciale è stato inevitabile dopo gli errori gestionali commessi.

That commercial failure was inevitable after the management mistakes that were made.

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Why is it masculine?

Fallimento is masculine because it derives from the Latin verb "fallere" (to deceive/fail), and Italian nouns formed with the suffix "-mento" (from Latin "-mentum") are inherently masculine, following the pattern of Latin neuter nouns that became masculine in Romance languages.

What is the Italian word for failure?

The Italian word for failure is il fallimento — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchéchecl'masculine

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