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il sale
salt
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How do you say sale in Italian?
How do you pronounce sale in Italian?
sale is pronounced /il ˈsaːle/ in Italian.
Example sentences
Il sale marino è più salato del sale comune.
Sea salt is saltier than common salt.
Ho comprato un sale nuovo per la cucina, ma è troppo caro.
I bought a new salt for cooking, but it's too expensive.
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Why is it masculine?
Sale (salt) is masculine in Italian because it derives from Latin "sal," which was masculine in the second declension, and Italian inherited this gender assignment from Latin. The word's gender has been preserved through the Romance language evolution despite the semantic shift toward treating many commodity nouns as masculine across Italian.
What is the Italian word for salt?
The Italian word for salt is il sale — masculine.
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