🇮🇹 Italian

sali

masculine

i sali

salts

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sali
/i ˈsaːli/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say sali in Italian?

IPA
/i ˈsaːli/

How do you pronounce sali in Italian?

sali is pronounced /i ˈsaːli/ 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?

Sali (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 salts?

The Italian word for salts is i sali — masculine.

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