🇮🇹 Italian

passo

masculine

il passo

step

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passo
/il ˈpasso/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say passo in Italian?

IPA
/il ˈpasso/

How do you pronounce passo in Italian?

passo is pronounced /il ˈpasso/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Il passo successivo è molto importante per il progetto.

The next step is very important for the project.

Ho sentito un passo pesante alle spalle durante la notte buia.

I heard a heavy footstep behind me during the dark night.

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Why is it masculine?

Passo (step) is masculine because it derives from Latin "passus," which was masculine in the second declension; this gender was preserved through the regular sound changes that transformed Latin into Italian.

What is the Italian word for step?

The Italian word for step is il passo — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchpaslemasculine
🇪🇸 Spanishpasoelmasculine
🇵🇹 Portuguesepassoomasculine

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