🇮🇹 Italian

posto

masculine

il posto

place

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posto
/il ˈposto/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say posto in Italian?

IPA
/il ˈposto/

How do you pronounce posto in Italian?

posto is pronounced /il ˈposto/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Il posto è molto comodo e ampio.

The place is very comfortable and spacious.

Ho trovato un posto bellissimo per la vacanza.

I found a very beautiful place for the vacation.

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Why is it masculine?

Posto is masculine because it derives from the Latin "positus" (past participle of "ponere," meaning "to place"), which is a masculine adjective in Latin; Italian retained this grammatical gender when the word evolved into a noun meaning "place" or "position."

What is the Italian word for place?

The Italian word for place is il posto — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchplace flips!lafeminine
🇪🇸 Spanishlugarelmasculine
🇵🇹 Portugueselugaromasculine

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