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Basic Grammar
In Italian all nouns are either masculine or feminine. Where in
English we say the apple and the book, in Italian it is
la mela and il
libro because mela is feminine
and libro is masculine. The gender of
nouns is shown in the article (il,
la, un,
una,etc.):
masc. sing.
il
fem. sing.
la
l' (+vowel)
l' (+vowel)
lo (+z, gn, pn, ps, x,
s+consonant)
masc. plur.
i
fem. plur.
le
gli (+vowel, +z,
gn, pn, s+consonant)
masc.
un
fem.
una
uno (+z, gn, pn,
un' (+vowel)
s+consonant
note: definite articles (il,
la, i,
le, etc.) used after the
prepositions
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