How to Pronounce 'Domani': Italian Pronunciation Guide

Q: How do you pronounce domani in Italian?

domani is pronounced with the stress described below. In IPA it is written /doˈma.ni/. It means “tomorrow.” doh-MAH-nee , stress on the middle syllable, not the first. In IPA: /doˈma.ni/ . All three syllables keep their full vowel quality, even the unstressed ones.

How do you pronounce "domani" in Italian?

doh-MAH-nee, stress on the middle syllable, not the first. In IPA: /doˈma.ni/. All three syllables keep their full vowel quality, even the unstressed ones.

domani /doˈma.ni/

Three syllables, do-ma-ni, with the stress landing on the middle one. English speakers scanning the written word often want to stress the first syllable, the way "dominant" or "domain" do, but Italian stress falls squarely on "ma."

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Sound it out

Nothing about the spelling here is irregular, every letter gets its expected sound, so the one thing to watch is stress placement, which English cognates can actively mislead you on.

do A quick, unstressed closed "oh," said lightly since it isn't the stressed syllable.

ma The stressed syllable: an open "ah" as in "father," held a touch longer and louder than the syllables around it.

ni A light, unstressed "nee," with the vowel kept short and crisp rather than drawn out.

Hear it in a sentence

Ci vediamo domani.

See you tomorrow.

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"Ci vediamo" literally means "we see each other," using the reciprocal reflexive form of "vedere," but functions as Italian's standard way of saying "see you" — there's no direct verb-for-verb match with the English idiom, so this whole phrase has to be learned as a set unit rather than translated piece by piece. "Domani" tacked on the end specifies when that next meeting happens, the normal position for a time adverb closing out a sentence like this.

This phrase is casual and friendly by default, exactly the register of "Ci vediamo domani" as a sign-off between friends or coworkers, not a formal farewell.

Where English speakers slip

The most common mistake is stressing the first syllable, saying "DOH-ma-nee," a habit pulled in by English words built on the same Latin root, like "dominant" or "dominion," which do stress the first syllable. Italian "domani" stresses the second syllable instead, "doh-MAH-nee."

English speakers also sometimes let the final "i" glide into a "y" sound, saying something like "doh-MAH-nyee." Italian keeps that last vowel a pure, short "ee" with no glide added, the same clean vowel quality as the "i" in "ski."