🇮🇹 Italian

libri

masculine

i libri

books

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libri
/i ˈliːbri/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say libri in Italian?

IPA
/i ˈliːbri/

How do you pronounce libri in Italian?

libri is pronounced /i ˈliːbri/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Il libro rosso è molto interessante e lo leggo ogni giorno.

The red book is very interesting and I read it every day.

Questo libro nuovo appartiene al mio amico Carlo, che lo ha comprato ieri.

This new book belongs to my friend Carlo, who bought it yesterday.

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Why is it masculine?

Libri is masculine because it derives from Latin "liber," which was a masculine noun in the second declension. Italian inherited both the word and its grammatical gender. In Latin, "liber" originally referred to the inner bark of trees before being extended to mean "book."

What is the Italian word for books?

The Italian word for books is i libri — masculine.

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