Italian Indefinite Articles and how to use them
The book "English Grammar for Students of Italian" says of indefinite articles: "...used before a noun when we are not speaking of a particular person, animal, etc..." There are two indefinite articles in English; a and an, and they are never used with plural nouns.
Italian has (4) choices for an indefinite article and the method for choosing which one to use is as follows:
Uno - use this article for masculine singular nouns beginning with z or s + another consonant.Un -use this article for all other masculine singular nouns.
Una - use this article for all feminine singular nouns beginning with a consonant
Un’ - use this article for all feminine singular nouns starting with a vowel
Click on the appropriate indefinite article for the noun to the right
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bambino bambina amica zaino carrota gonna edificio stomaco dottore (M) esperienza arancia libro |
lezione (F) studente (M) autostrada barca motorino zio cucchiaio motocicletta donna spuntino treno opinione (F) |
