🇮🇹 Italian

popolo

masculine

il popolo

people

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popolo
/il ˈpɔːpolo/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say popolo in Italian?

IPA
/il ˈpɔːpolo/

How do you pronounce popolo in Italian?

popolo is pronounced /il ˈpɔːpolo/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Il popolo italiano è molto orgoglioso della sua storia antica.

The Italian people are very proud of their ancient history.

Un popolo unito può superare qualsiasi difficoltà.

A united people can overcome any difficulty.

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Why is it masculine?

Popolo is masculine because it derives from Latin "populus," which was a masculine noun in the second declension, and Italian retained the gender of its Latin ancestor. The word originally referred to the Roman people or citizenry as a collective body.

What is the Italian word for people?

The Italian word for people is il popolo — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchpeuplelemasculine
🇵🇹 Portuguesepovoomasculine

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