January 27

FREE Italian Lesson: Italian grammar: Demonstrative adjectives

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I know a lot of students studying Italian find this a bit difficult to understand so I thought I’d put this together to share on my blog:Learn Italian Manchester Students studying

When demonstrative pronouns questo (questa, questi, queste) and quello (quella, quelli, quelle) are followed by a noun, they turn into adjectives.

The Demonstrative adjective (aggetivi dimostrativi) are:

Singolare Singular Plurale

Plural

Masculine questo this questi

these

Feminine questa this queste

these

Masculine quello that quelli

those

Feminine quella that quelle

those

Masculine codesto that codesti

those

Feminine codesta that codeste

those

questo, questa, and quella before a noun beginning with a vowel takes an apostrophe. Examples:
o    quest’aereo  »  this airplane
o    quest’aula  »  this classroom
o    quell’autostrada  »  that highway
Questa is sometimes shortened to “sta” and contracted with the noun it modifies:
o    questa sera (this evening)   »  stasera (this evening)
Demonstratives agree in gender and number with the nouns they modify, and always precede them:
•    Questo libro  »  this book
•    Quella casa   »  that house


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