🇮🇹 Italian

topo

masculine

il topo

mouse

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topo
/il ˈtɔːpo/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say topo in Italian?

IPA
/il ˈtɔːpo/

How do you pronounce topo in Italian?

topo is pronounced /il ˈtɔːpo/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Il topo grigio ha costruito il suo nido dietro il frigorifero.

The gray mouse built his nest behind the refrigerator.

Abbiamo catturato un topo grande e lo abbiamo liberato nel bosco.

We caught a big mouse and released it into the woods.

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Why is it masculine?

Topo (mouse) is masculine because it derives from Latin "tōpus," which was masculine in gender, and Italian preserved this grammatical gender through regular sound changes and inflectional patterns from Vulgar Latin. Like most Italian nouns ending in "-o," it inherited the masculine gender class from its Latin ancestor.

What is the Italian word for mouse?

The Italian word for mouse is il topo — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchsouris flips!lafeminine
🇪🇸 Spanishratónelmasculine

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