🇮🇹 Italian

gioco

masculine

il gioco

game

Try it

gioco
/il ˈdʒɔːko/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say gioco in Italian?

IPA
/il ˈdʒɔːko/

How do you pronounce gioco in Italian?

gioco is pronounced /il ˈdʒɔːko/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Il gioco nuovo è molto divertente e tutti i bambini lo amano.

The new game is very fun and all the children love it.

Questo gioco interessante mi ha insegnato molte strategie utili.

This interesting game taught me many useful strategies.

Swipe gioco in Accord

Swipe through hundreds of words and master grammatical gender in Italian.

Download on the App Store

Why is it masculine?

Gioco is masculine because it derives from Latin "iocus" (masculine), which originally meant "joke" or "jest" before evolving to mean "game"; Italian inherited the masculine gender from its Latin ancestor along with the phonetic changes that produced the modern form.

What is the Italian word for game?

The Italian word for game is il gioco — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchjeulemasculine
🇪🇸 Spanishjuegoelmasculine
🇵🇹 Portuguesejogoomasculine

Practice with Accord

Swipe through hundreds of words and master grammatical gender in Italian.

Download on the App Store