🇮🇹 Italian

taxi

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masculine

i taxi

taxis

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taxi
/i ˈtaksi/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say taxi in Italian?

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/i ˈtaksi/

How do you pronounce taxi in Italian?

taxi is pronounced /i ˈtaksi/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Il taxi giallo è arrivato in ritardo questa mattina.

The yellow taxi arrived late this morning.

Ho visto un taxi nuovo parcheggiato davanti all'hotel.

I saw a new taxi parked in front of the hotel.

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Why is it masculine?

Taxi is masculine in Italian (il taxi) because it's a borrowed word from English that was adopted into Italian in the mid-20th century, and Italian typically assigns masculine gender to modern foreign loanwords that don't have a clear feminine ending. There's no Latin root since it's a contemporary borrowing rather than a word with classical origins.

What is the Italian word for taxis?

The Italian word for taxis is i taxi — masculine.

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