🇮🇹 Italian

yogurt

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Yogurt is masculine in Italian. The article is gli, so the full form is gli yogurt ("yogurts").

MASCULINE

yogurt is the plural of yogurt

gli yogurt — yogurts

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yogurt
/ʎi ˈjɔɡurt/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say yogurt in Italian?

IPA
/ʎi ˈjɔɡurt/

How do you pronounce yogurt in Italian?

yogurt is pronounced /ʎi ˈjɔɡurt/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Lo yogurt greco è più denso e cremoso di quello normale.

Greek yogurt is denser and creamier than the normal one.

Ho comprato uno yogurt biologico al mercato perché era fresco.

I bought an organic yogurt at the market because it was fresh.

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Why is it masculine?

Italian "yogurt" is masculine. While the word does derive from Turkish "yoğurt," the gender assignment is not reliably explained by a general rule about foreign loanwords ending in consonants, as Italian treats such borrowings inconsistently (e.g., "film" is masculine, but "crisi" from Greek is feminine). "Yogurt" is masculine in Italian usage, but this appears to be an arbitrary gender assignment rather than following a predictable pattern based on etymology or phonetic structure.

What is the Italian word for yogurts?

The Italian word for yogurts is gli yogurt — masculine.

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