🇮🇹 Italian

software

Did you know? This word is a cognate — it looks similar in English and has the same meaning. Cognates are usually easier to remember!
masculine

i software

softwares

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software
/i ˈsɔftwɛr/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say software in Italian?

IPA
/i ˈsɔftwɛr/

How do you pronounce software in Italian?

software is pronounced /i ˈsɔftwɛr/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Il software nuovo che abbiamo installato è molto veloce e affidabile.

The new software that we installed is very fast and reliable.

Questo software gratuito è diventato indispensabile per il nostro lavoro quotidiano.

This free software has become indispensable for our daily work.

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Why is it masculine?

Software is masculine in Italian (il software) because it's treated as an invariable foreign loanword borrowed directly from English, and when gender must be assigned to English words ending in consonants, Italian typically defaults to masculine. There's no specific historical root explaining this beyond the general convention that foreign tech terms adopted wholesale into Italian tend to receive masculine gender.

What is the Italian word for softwares?

The Italian word for softwares is i software — masculine.

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