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lo scaffale
shelf
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How do you say scaffale in Italian?
How do you pronounce scaffale in Italian?
scaffale is pronounced /lo skafˈfaːle/ in Italian.
Example sentences
Lo scaffale nuovo è pieno di libri interessanti.
The new shelf is full of interesting books.
Quello scaffale marrone è troppo piccolo per contenere tutti i nostri oggetti.
That brown shelf is too small to hold all our objects.
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Why is it masculine?
Scaffale is masculine because it derives from the Latin "scapha" (a small boat or tub), which became "scaffa" in Italian, and the masculine -ale suffix (commonly used to form masculine nouns in Italian) was added to create "scaffale". The word's masculine gender reflects the gender of its Latin root and the typical masculine association of the -ale suffix in Italian.
What is the Italian word for shelf?
The Italian word for shelf is lo scaffale — masculine.
Gender across languages
| Language | Word | Article | Gender |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇫🇷 French | étagère flips! | l' | feminine |
| 🇪🇸 Spanish | estante | el | masculine |
| 🇵🇹 Portuguese | prateleira flips! | a | feminine |
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