Italian Names That Often Confuse Non-Native Speakers

Luke is a boy or a girl? Hello Italian students today let's talk about Of personal names but mostly of names that can potentially confuse you Italian student are sure you already know that in Italian generally male names end with the vowel O and female nouns with the vowel a we have many examples of this type for example Mario and the boy Maria is the girl Roberto male Roberta female Stefano not Stefano Stefania is the version Stefano's female today I would like to talk to you about some male names that end instead with the vowel a that As I said is the vowel generally used for female names we start on the first male name that could

Confuse you is the name Luke that I used At the beginning of the video Luke is the name of a boy man name Luca the version female of Luca is I think Lucia so quite different Luca Lucia is the female then we have the name Mattia Mattia quite similar to the name Matthew though Matteo ends with an o So you are you sure that the name of a male Mattia you might think that instead it is the girl's name because it sounds a little Maria Mattia Maria but no Mattia is a boy the next name is Nicholas Again it is a boy's name of boy the female version generally is most common omnipresent or also maybe Nicolina but Nicoletta is the more is more classic This name ti

Will definitely confuse because in English this name is always used for women Twitter girls but in Italy it is almost always used for boys and is the name Andrea is generally a boy in Italy although it is possible to hear this name Andrea also for a woman so Andrea is a name that is good for both of them but Generally they are more males Remember that Andrea is generally a male for the girl we have Andrea or also Andreina and then there are two others similar names to each other that again end with a and could confuse you are the name Aeneas and the name Elijah Aeneas two names of man Now Instead we look at the reverse and I have only one name I would like to tell you is a

Italian woman's name that doesn't end With A OR with other vowels but ends With the o and that's why it could confuse you because precisely the o is for i males usually and it is the name Consuelo is a female name ending with the or then we have the large category of names that instead end with e in Italian already lo you know generally a word that ends with the e we don't know if it is a word male or female And the same applies For the person name, there are names that end with e that are feminine for example Rachel is a name of woman and then there are names that instead end with E but are masculine for example my name Emanuel

and the female version of these names that end with e is Generally with a so Emanuel Emanuela Daniele male Daniela the female version Be careful because. many of these names ending with the and that are masculine in the version female end Yes with blade some time a trick a little problem of consonants for example the name Raphael in the female version is Raffaella with duelle so Raphael one L Raphael 2 the same thing for Gabriele male Gabriella duelle for the version female I have already mentioned Stephen the whose female version is Stefania and not Stefano and another common Italian name Who does not have a female version exactly the same is Joseph is a male name the female version

is not Joseph but generally Josephine then of course we have all the category of foreign names Jennifer William Walter Samantha's with an accent Italian though these are not part of the today's speech because today I wanted you talk about Italian names but there is a category of Italian women's names that do not end with a do not end with the o but end with other vowels or the letter S we look at two women's names that end with the letter S rather three names Iris Ines Dolores are Italian women's names ending with s are names exist used in Italy as Zoe or as Naomi but I would consider them perhaps more names foreigners but a used Italian name that

does not end with any normal letter is the name Miriam because it ends with an m And it is very rare to find Italian words that end with m and you know names Italians that confuse you write in the comments if you have ever seen a name that you confused Hi