🇮🇹 Italian

ministro

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masculine

il ministro

minister

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ministro
/il miˈnistro/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say ministro in Italian?

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/il miˈnistro/

How do you pronounce ministro in Italian?

ministro is pronounced /il miˈnistro/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Il ministro italiano è stato eletto per il suo programma ambizioso.

The Italian minister was elected for his ambitious program.

Il nuovo ministro ha annunciato le sue prime decisioni importanti.

The new minister announced his first important decisions.

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Why is it masculine?

Ministro is masculine in Italian because it derives from Latin "minister," which was grammatically masculine. In Latin, "minister" (meaning servant or subordinate) was a masculine noun of the second declension, and Italian inherited this masculine gender classification when the word evolved through the Romance language family.

What is the Italian word for minister?

The Italian word for minister is il ministro — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchministrelemasculine

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