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il formaggio
cheese
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How do you say formaggio in Italian?
How do you pronounce formaggio in Italian?
formaggio is pronounced /il forˈmaddʒo/ in Italian.
Example sentences
Il formaggio italiano è molto delizioso e apprezzato in tutto il mondo.
The Italian cheese is very delicious and appreciated throughout the world.
Questo formaggio parmigiano è invecchiato per due anni in una cantina scura.
This aged Parmesan cheese has been matured for two years in a dark cellar.
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Why is it masculine?
Formaggio is masculine because it derives from Latin "formaticum" (cheese made in a form/mold), which was a masculine noun, and Italian inherited this grammatical gender through regular sound changes. The word's masculine gender simply perpetuated the gender of its Latin ancestor rather than following any particular phonetic rule.
What is the Italian word for cheese?
The Italian word for cheese is il formaggio — masculine.
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