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How do you pronounce "tutto" in Italian?
TOOT-toh, with the double t held through a longer silent stop before it releases. In IPA: /ˈtut.to/.
Two syllables, tut and to, with the stress on the first — the double t is one long consonant shared across the syllable break, not two separate t sounds.
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This is another case of Italian's doubled-letter spelling describing something real: with stop consonants like t, gemination means holding the closure longer before releasing it, not repeating the sound twice.
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Ho fatto tutto.
I did everything.
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"Ho fatto tutto" pairs the passato prossimo "ho fatto" (I have done / I did) with "tutto" used as a pronoun meaning "everything" — no noun needed, since "tutto" alone stands in for the whole idea of "all of it." This differs from its adjectival use ("tutto il lavoro," all the work), where it modifies a noun instead of replacing one.
Because Italian's compound past uses "avere" or "essere" as an auxiliary depending on the verb, "ho fatto" (with avere) confirms "fare" belongs to the large group of verbs that take avere rather than essere in this tense.
Where English speakers slip
The most common mistake, again, is shortening the double t to a single, ordinary-length one, producing something closer to "TOO-toh." With stop consonants like t, the lengthening happens as a longer silent hold before the release, which is easy to skip entirely if you're not listening for it, since — unlike "ss" or "ll" — there's no audible buzz to hear during the hold itself.
The other slip is softening or dropping the final o, treating it as if it were silent the way a final vowel often is in English spelling. In "tutto," that o is a full, separate syllable, never swallowed.