🇮🇹 Italian

stato

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masculine

lo stato

state

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stato
/lo ˈstaːto/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say stato in Italian?

IPA
/lo ˈstaːto/

How do you pronounce stato in Italian?

stato is pronounced /lo ˈstaːto/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Lo stato italiano è molto antico e ha una storia ricca.

The Italian state is very old and has a rich history.

Lo stato attuale del progetto è preoccupante perché abbiamo perso molti fondi.

The current state of the project is worrying because we lost many funds.

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Why is it masculine?

Stato is masculine because it derives from the Latin "status" (masculine), which originally meant "standing" or "condition" and was a second-declension noun that naturally carried masculine gender into Italian. The masculine gender was preserved as Latin evolved into the Romance languages, following the standard pattern for -us nouns becoming -o nouns in Italian.

What is the Italian word for state?

The Italian word for state is lo stato — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchétatl'masculine
🇪🇸 Spanishestadoelmasculine
🇵🇹 Portugueseestadoomasculine

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