🇮🇹 Italian

ospiti

masculine

gli ospiti

guests

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ospiti
/ʎi ˈɔspiti/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say ospiti in Italian?

IPA
/ʎi ˈɔspiti/

How do you pronounce ospiti in Italian?

ospiti is pronounced /ʎi ˈɔspiti/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Lo ospite americano è arrivato ieri sera ed è molto gentile.

The American male guest arrived yesterday evening and is very kind.

Questo ospite illustre ha portato con sé dei regali straordinari per la famiglia.

This illustrious male guest brought extraordinary gifts with him for the family.

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Why is it masculine?

Ospiti is masculine because it derives from the Latin "hospes" (nominative singular), which was a masculine noun referring to a host or guest. Italian inherited this grammatical gender through regular sound changes (the Latin nominative -is ending was lost, leaving the root, which took the masculine -e ending in Italian). The word's gender remained stable through this evolution despite the semantic domain (hospitality) not determining gender in Romance languages.

What is the Italian word for guests?

The Italian word for guests is gli ospiti — masculine.

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