How to Say ‘In the seventeenth century’ in Italian
Nel Seicento
nel say-CHEN-toh
[nel say-CHEN-toh]
💬 Usage Tip: Seicento literally means "six hundred" but stands for the 1600s. Same pattern: Settecento is the 1700s and Ottocento is the 1800s, so the number is one less than the English century.
Phrase Breakdown
Nel
[nel]
in the
Combination of in + il, used before a masculine singular noun.
Nel gruppo tutti possono fare domande.
In the group everyone can ask questions.
Seicento
[say-CHEN-toh]
the 1600s, 17th century
Italian way of naming a century by its hundreds.
La chiesa è del Seicento.
The church is from the 1600s.
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