Learn Italian: L'albergo ha cinquanta stanze.

L'albergo ha cinquanta stanze.

The hotel has fifty rooms.

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Is the word cinquanta (fifty) related to the word for five?

Yes! Just like in English (five and fifty), Italian numbers often share a root. The word for five is cinque. To make it fifty, the ending changes to -anta, making it cinquanta. Most tens from 40 to 90 end in -anta.

Why is it l'albergo and not il albergo?

Albergo (hotel) is a masculine word that starts with a vowel. Instead of using the standard masculine word for 'the' (il or lo), Italian drops the vowel of the article and adds an apostrophe to make it flow better. So, lo albergo becomes l'albergo.

Do you pronounce the letter 'h' in ha?

No, the 'h' is completely silent. You just pronounce it like 'ah'. The 'h' is there in writing to show it is a form of the verb avere (to have) and to tell it apart from the word a, which means 'to' or 'at'.

Why does stanze end in an 'e'?

Stanze means 'rooms' and is the plural of stanza (room). In Italian, feminine words that end in -a usually change their ending to -e when there is more than one.