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Definition:<\/em><\/td>Define the specificity of a noun<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Types:<\/em><\/td><\/a>
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Indefinite Articles<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Masculine<\/em><\/td>Nouns starting with a consonant or vowel<\/em><\/td>Un<\/strong>
\n<\/td>		Un ragazzo (a boy)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Nouns starting with s+consonant or z<\/em>
\n<\/td>		Uno<\/strong><\/td>Uno studente (a student)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feminine<\/em><\/td>Nouns starting with a consonant<\/em><\/td>Una<\/strong><\/td>Una donna (a woman)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Nouns starting with a vowel<\/em><\/td>Un'<\/strong><\/td>Un'automobile (an automobile)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>
\nindicate that the noun being referred to is non-specific or general, whereas <\/a>
\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Definite Articles<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td>Singular<\/em><\/td>Plural<\/em><\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Masculine<\/em><\/td>Nouns starting with a consonant<\/em><\/td>Il<\/strong><\/td>I<\/strong><\/td>Il ragazzo\u00a0\u2192 I\u00a0ragazzi
\nThe boy\u00a0\u2192\u00a0The boys<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Nouns starting with a vowel<\/em>
\n<\/td>		L'<\/strong><\/td>Gli<\/strong><\/td>L'albero \u2192 Gli alberi
\nThe tree\u00a0\u2192\u00a0The trees<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Nouns starting with s+consonant or z<\/em><\/td>Lo<\/strong><\/td>Gli<\/strong><\/td>Lo studente\u2192 Gli studenti
\nThe student\u00a0\u2192\u00a0The students<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feminine<\/em><\/td>Nouns starting with a consonant<\/em><\/td>La<\/strong><\/td>Le<\/strong><\/td>La donna\u00a0\u2192 Le\u00a0donne
\nThe woman\u00a0\u2192\u00a0The women<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Nouns starting with a vowel<\/em><\/td>L'<\/strong><\/td>Le<\/strong><\/td>L'automobile\u00a0\u2192 Le\u00a0automobili
\nThe automobile\u00a0\u2192\u00a0The automobiles<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>
\n indicate that the noun being referred to is specific or particular<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Agreement:<\/em><\/td>Vary according to the number, gender, and starting letter of the noun it defines<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Placement:<\/em><\/td>Generally after verbs except for mai, gi\u00e0 and ancora which are placed between the auxiliary verb and the past participle<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7869,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/italiamo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/italiamo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/italiamo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/italiamo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7869"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/italiamo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1346"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/italiamo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2523,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/italiamo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1346\/revisions\/2523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/italiamo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}