🇮🇹 Italian

quadrato

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masculine

il quadrato

square

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quadrato
/il kwaˈdraːto/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say quadrato in Italian?

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/il kwaˈdraːto/

How do you pronounce quadrato in Italian?

quadrato is pronounced /il kwaˈdraːto/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Il quadrato rosso è più grande del quadrato blu.

The red square is bigger than the blue square.

Ho comprato un quadrato perfetto per il mio progetto geometrico.

I bought a perfect square for my geometry project.

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Why is it masculine?

Quadrato is masculine because it derives from Latin "quadratus," which is the masculine form of the adjective meaning "square." Italian inherited both the word and its grammatical gender from Latin. Adjectives ending in -ato in Italian (derived from Latin -atus) are masculine in their base form, with the feminine form being -ata (quadrata). This gender pattern is consistent across Italian adjectives of this type.

What is the Italian word for square?

The Italian word for square is il quadrato — masculine.

Gender across languages

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🇵🇹 Portuguesepraça flips!afeminine

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