March 9

Free Italian Grammar Demonstrative Pronouns

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Buongiorno a tutti! A bit of FREE grammar for anybody interested in Learning Italian.

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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