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How to identify which word is masculine or feminine in Italian?

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tammaro profile picture tammaroFebruary 2015
depending of final vowel in much cases.
Fernando777 profile picture Fernando777December 2014

there's a general rule. Masculine words finish in o (singular) or i (plural) for example: ragazzo, ragazzi, whereas feminine words finish in a (singular) or e (plural) like ragazza, ragazze. However, there are many cases where this rule doesn't work and I think you can only learn them by heart, for example: il problemA.

  • peterfox61 profile picture peterfox61February 2015
    Normally Italian masculine words terminate in a) are very learned words even Italians has problems to specify, here some examples il sintagma, il paradigma, l'emblema, il teorema, l'anacoreta and so on
tammaro profile picture tammaroDecember 2014
In general you note the difference from the final suffixes:
o - i for masculine
a- e for feminine
vincent profile picture vincentJanuary 2015
Thanks for asking a question related to language learning