🇮🇹 Italian

salotto

masculine

il salotto

living room

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salotto
/il saˈlɔtto/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say salotto in Italian?

IPA
/il saˈlɔtto/

How do you pronounce salotto in Italian?

salotto is pronounced /il saˈlɔtto/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Il salotto nuovo è stato decorato con mobili moderni e eleganti.

The new living room has been decorated with modern and elegant furniture.

Abbiamo scelto un salotto grande e luminoso per ricevere gli ospiti.

We chose a large and bright living room to receive guests.

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Why is it masculine?

Salotto is masculine because it ends in the diminutive suffix "-otto", which consistently produces masculine nouns in Italian. The word derives from "sala" (room/hall), and the diminutive form "salotto" (small room/living room) inherited masculine gender from the productive masculine diminutive suffix "-otto".

What is the Italian word for living room?

The Italian word for living room is il salotto — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchsalonlemasculine
🇪🇸 Spanishsala flips!lafeminine

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