Basic Italian: A Grammar and Workbook

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BASIC ITALIAN: A GRAMMAR AND WORKBOOK Basic Italian: A Grammar and Workbook comprises an accessible reference grammar and relate ...

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BASIC ITALIAN: A GRAMMAR AND WORKBOOK Stella Peyronel and Ian Higgins ...

First published 2006 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon OX14 4RN, UK Simultaneously published in the USA and Cana ...

CONTENTS Introduction vii ...

1 Nouns: gender and number List of signs and abbreviations viii 2Definite and indefinite articles 3 Adjectives; possessive and ...

INTRODUCTION If you are an English-speaking learner preparing GCSE, Scottish Standard Grade (credit level) or similar examinatio ...

SIGNS AND ABBREVIATIONS f feminine fp feminine plural fs feminine singular lit. literally m masculine mp masculine plural ms mas ...

A slash shows alternative ways of saying something, e.g. Gli dico/Dico loro la verità. I tell them the truth. (Here, gli dico an ...

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UNIT ONE Nouns: gender and number Gender: masculine and feminine 1 All Italian nouns are either masculine or feminine. The best ...

To help you to determine the gender of some nouns ending in -e, here is a rule: nouns ending in -sione or -zione are feminine: S ...

Some nouns of this type are abbreviations, and have kept the gender of the full word: cinema stands for cinematografo [m], auto ...

Number: singular and plural 11 Masculine nouns ending in -o, and all nouns ending in -e, end in -i in the plural: Nouns ending ...

For an explanation of the -h- in these endings, see paragraph 20 below. 16 Nouns ending in -i do not change in the plural: 17 ...

19 Note that, in Italian, the masculine form of a noun is also used when the gender is not important. A noun in the plural may t ...

22 Nouns ending in -cia or -gia keep the i in the plural (-cie or -gie) when the i is stressed, or when c or g is preceded by a ...

Exercise 3 With the help of a dictionary where necessary, fill in the singulars of the nouns. Examples: la casa: le case; il lib ...

UNIT TWO Definite and indefinite articles Definite article 1 In Italian the definite article (English ‘the’) has different forms ...