🇮🇹 Italian

ufficio

masculine

l' ufficio

office

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ufficio
/lufˈfitʃo/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say ufficio in Italian?

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/lufˈfitʃo/

How do you pronounce ufficio in Italian?

ufficio is pronounced /lufˈfitʃo/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Lo ufficio nuovo è molto grande e luminoso.

The new office is very large and bright.

L'ufficio principale si trova in un palazzo antico e bellissimo.

The main office is located in an ancient and very beautiful building.

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Why is it masculine?

Ufficio is masculine because it derives from the Latin "officium" (duty, service, office), which was a masculine noun in the second declension; Italian inherited the grammatical gender of its Latin ancestors, and masculine Latin nouns typically remained masculine in Romance languages.

What is the Italian word for office?

The Italian word for office is l' ufficio — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchbureaulemasculine
🇪🇸 Spanishoficina flips!lafeminine
🇵🇹 Portugueseescritórioomasculine

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