🇮🇹 Italian

posta

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feminine

la posta

mail

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posta
/la ˈpɔsta/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say posta in Italian?

IPA
/la ˈpɔsta/

How do you pronounce posta in Italian?

posta is pronounced /la ˈpɔsta/ in Italian.

Example sentences

La posta italiana è molto efficiente e affidabile.

The Italian postal service is very efficient and reliable.

Ho aspettato la posta per tre giorni, ma non è ancora arrivata.

I waited for the mail for three days, but it still hasn't arrived.

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Why is it feminine?

Posta is feminine because it derives from the Latin feminine noun "posta" (a station or post). In Italian, nouns ending in -a are typically feminine, and this pattern was inherited from Latin where -a endings generally indicated feminine gender. The femininity of "posta" was preserved through this regular pattern as the word evolved from Latin into Italian.

What is the Italian word for mail?

The Italian word for mail is la posta — feminine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇪🇸 Spanishcorreo flips!elmasculine
🇵🇹 Portuguesecorreio flips!omasculine

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