🇮🇹 Italian

letto

masculine

il letto

bed

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letto
/il ˈlɛtto/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say letto in Italian?

IPA
/il ˈlɛtto/

How do you pronounce letto in Italian?

letto is pronounced /il ˈlɛtto/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Il letto nuovo è molto comodo e spaioso.

The new bed is very comfortable and spacious.

Ho comprato un letto matrimoniale grande per la mia camera.

I bought a large double bed for my bedroom.

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Why is it masculine?

Letto is masculine because it derives from Latin "lectus," which was grammatically masculine in the second declension; Italian inherited this gender classification along with the word itself when Latin evolved into the Romance languages.

What is the Italian word for bed?

The Italian word for bed is il letto — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchlitlemasculine
🇪🇸 Spanishcama flips!lafeminine
🇵🇹 Portuguesecama flips!afeminine

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