🇮🇹 Italian

futuro

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masculine

il futuro

future

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futuro
/il fuˈtuːro/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say futuro in Italian?

IPA
/il fuˈtuːro/

How do you pronounce futuro in Italian?

futuro is pronounced /il fuˈtuːro/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Il futuro prossimo sarà pieno di nuove opportunità.

The near future will be full of new opportunities.

Un futuro incerto ci aspetta, ma rimaniamo ottimisti.

An uncertain future awaits us, but we remain optimistic.

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Why is it masculine?

Futuro is masculine in Italian because it derives from the Latin "futurus" (masculine), the future participle of "esse" (to be). In Latin, adjectives and participles ending in -us were typically masculine in the nominative singular. When Latin evolved into Italian, this masculine gender was preserved in the noun form "futuro" (meaning future/the future), following the standard pattern where -o endings in Italian generally correspond to masculine nouns inherited from Latin masculine forms.

What is the Italian word for future?

The Italian word for future is il futuro — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇪🇸 Spanishfuturoelmasculine
🇵🇹 Portuguesefuturoomasculine

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