The Definite Italian Articles: the Easy Way to Learn Them

Let's find out together the definitive Italian articles. Are you wondering what they are?

As you can see they are different in number and in the genre.

Singular masculine

The articles in Italian follow the genre and the number of the name - they can be in this way;

Let's see the masculine singular form and some example to better understand

Il libro - the book

Lo scoiattolo - The squirrel

Use Lo when the name in front of you starts with these letters.

Plural masculine

We also have two forms for the masculine plural. Warning. There are two forms for the masculine version

Gn - Lo gnomo -The Gnome
Io - Lo iodio -The Iodine
Ps - lo psicologo -The psychologist
s + consonant (sb, sc, sd ... sp, st, sv) z x - Lo student -The student

I libri

Gli scoiattoli

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i is the plural for il

Gli is the plural of "lo." You can use it (as the singular version) in the following cases:

It is the plural of lo, and is therefore used with names beginning with;

Singular feminine

Let's now know the feminine;

The singular is;

Gn - Gli gnomi -The Gnomes
Io - Gli iodi -The Iodines
Ps - Gi psicologi - The psychologists
s + consonante (sb, sc, sd ... sp, st, sv) z x - Lo student -The student

La sedia - The chair

If the name starts with a vowel, the apostrophe is used.

L'amica - The friend

Plural feminine

Here the plural feminine;

Le sedie - The chairs

Le amiche - The friend

No difference even if the name begins with a vowel

What about to sum up all?

If you want to discover more click for more grammar rules related to the definite articles here

Watch the video for pronunciation

And now let's watch the video to learn the real native Italian pronunciation of the definite Italian articles in less than 3 minutes!

la - feminine singular article
le - plural singular article
il - masculin singular article
lo- masculin singular article
i - masculin plural article
gli- masculin plural article

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