🇮🇹 Italian

stranieri

masculine

gli stranieri

foreigners

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stranieri
/ʎi straˈnjɛːri/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say stranieri in Italian?

IPA
/ʎi straˈnjɛːri/

How do you pronounce stranieri in Italian?

stranieri is pronounced /ʎi straˈnjɛːri/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Lo straniero italiano è arrivato ieri con i suoi documenti.

The Italian foreigner arrived yesterday with his documents.

Quello straniero simpatico ha parlato perfettamente la nostra lingua.

That nice foreigner spoke our language perfectly.

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Why is it masculine?

Stranieri is masculine because it derives from the Latin "extraneus" (external, foreign). In Italian, nouns ending in "-iero" are typically masculine, and this word retained the masculine gender from its Latin adjectival source when it became established as a noun meaning "foreigner."

What is the Italian word for foreigners?

The Italian word for foreigners is gli stranieri — masculine.

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