🇮🇹 Italian

email

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Email is feminine in Italian. The article is le, so the full form is le email ("emails").

FEMININE

email is the plural of email

le email — emails

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email
/le iˈmɛil/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say email in Italian?

IPA
/le iˈmɛil/

How do you pronounce email in Italian?

email is pronounced /le iˈmɛil/ in Italian.

Example sentences

La email importante che stavi aspettando è finalmente arrivata questa mattina.

The important email that you were waiting for finally arrived this morning.

Ho ricevuto una email lunga e dettagliata dal mio capo riguardo al nuovo progetto.

I received a long and detailed email from my boss regarding the new project.

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Why is it feminine?

Email is feminine in Italian (la email) because it follows the gender of "posta" (mail/post office), the closest Italian equivalent. The word is a loanword from English, and Italian speakers have assigned it feminine gender by analogy with native feminine nouns related to communication and correspondence. However, the gender assignment remains somewhat fluid and debated among Italian speakers, with some treating it as masculine (il email), making it largely an exception rather than following a consistent rule.

What is the Italian word for emails?

The Italian word for emails is le email — feminine.

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