🇮🇹 Italian

movimento

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masculine

il movimento

movement

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movimento
/il moviˈmento/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say movimento in Italian?

IPA
/il moviˈmento/

How do you pronounce movimento in Italian?

movimento is pronounced /il moviˈmento/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Il movimento rapido del treno mi ha sorpreso.

The rapid movement of the train surprised me.

Quel movimento artistico italiano è stato molto influente nel ventesimo secolo.

That influential Italian artistic movement was very influential in the twentieth century.

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Why is it masculine?

Movimento is masculine because it derives from the Latin noun "movimentum," which was neuter in Latin. During the evolution from Latin to Italian, many neuter nouns ending in -mentum were reassigned to the masculine gender, and "movimento" followed this pattern, becoming a masculine noun in Italian.

What is the Italian word for movement?

The Italian word for movement is il movimento — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchmouvementlemasculine
🇪🇸 Spanishmovimientoelmasculine
🇵🇹 Portuguesemovimentoomasculine

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