🇮🇹 Italian

pazienti

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masculine

i pazienti

patients

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pazienti
/i patˈtsjɛnti/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say pazienti in Italian?

IPA
/i patˈtsjɛnti/

How do you pronounce pazienti in Italian?

pazienti is pronounced /i patˈtsjɛnti/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Il paziente anziano è stato dimesso dall'ospedale dopo tre settimane di cure intensive.

The elderly male patient was discharged from the hospital after three weeks of intensive care.

Il paziente tedesco ha chiesto un medico che parlasse la sua lingua.

The German male patient asked for a doctor who spoke his language.

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Why is it masculine?

Pazienti is a common gender noun in modern Italian, derived from Latin "patiens" (present participle of "patī," meaning "to suffer" or "to endure"). Rather than being inherently masculine, it agrees in gender with the person it describes: "un paziente" (a male patient) or "una paziente" (a female patient). The word functions as both masculine and feminine depending on the biological sex or gender identity of the person being described.

What is the Italian word for patients?

The Italian word for patients is i pazienti — masculine.

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