🇮🇹 Italian

pavimenti

masculine

i pavimenti

floors

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pavimenti
/i paviˈmenti/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say pavimenti in Italian?

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/i paviˈmenti/

How do you pronounce pavimenti in Italian?

pavimenti is pronounced /i paviˈmenti/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Il pavimento nuovo è stato installato ieri e rimane ancora molto lucido.

The new floor was installed yesterday and remains very shiny.

Quel pavimento sporco deve essere pulito immediatamente perché è pericoloso.

That dirty floor needs to be cleaned immediately because it is dangerous.

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Why is it masculine?

Pavimenti is masculine because it derives from the Latin "pavimentum," which was itself masculine (following the -mentum suffix pattern that consistently produces masculine nouns in Italian). The -mentum suffix, used to form abstract nouns from verbs in Latin, retained its masculine gender when these words were inherited into Romance languages.

What is the Italian word for floors?

The Italian word for floors is i pavimenti — masculine.

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