🇮🇹 Italian

negozio

masculine

il negozio

shop

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negozio
/il neˈɡɔttsjo/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say negozio in Italian?

IPA
/il neˈɡɔttsjo/

How do you pronounce negozio in Italian?

negozio is pronounced /il neˈɡɔttsjo/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Il negozio nuovo è molto grande e ha molti clienti.

The new store is very large and has many customers.

Quel negozio italiano vende prodotti tradizionali eccellenti.

That Italian store sells excellent traditional products.

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Why is it masculine?

Negozio derives from Latin "negotium" (business, transaction), which is a neuter noun, but it became masculine in Italian following the general sound shift where Latin neuter nouns ending in "-um" typically became masculine in Romance languages, adopting the "-o" ending characteristic of Italian masculine nouns.

What is the Italian word for shop?

The Italian word for shop is il negozio — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchmagasinlemasculine

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