🇮🇹 Italian

tavolo

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masculine

il tavolo

table

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tavolo
/il ˈtaːvolo/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say tavolo in Italian?

IPA
/il ˈtaːvolo/

How do you pronounce tavolo in Italian?

tavolo is pronounced /il ˈtaːvolo/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Il tavolo nuovo è molto grande e occupa tutto lo spazio della cucina.

The new table is very large and takes up all the kitchen space.

Ho comprato un tavolo antico al mercato e ora lo sto restaurando con mio padre.

I bought an antique table at the market and now I'm restoring it with my father.

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Why is it masculine?

Tavolo descends from Latin "tabula" (feminine), but it evolved into a masculine noun in Italian—this is an exception rather than following a predictable rule, likely influenced by analogy with other masculine nouns ending in -olo or semantic shifts over time.

What is the Italian word for table?

The Italian word for table is il tavolo — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchtable flips!lafeminine
🇪🇸 Spanishmesa flips!lafeminine
🇵🇹 Portuguesemesa flips!afeminine

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