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How do we know if giornali is masculine or feminine since it ends in -i?
Giornali (newspapers) comes from the singular noun giornale. Nouns ending in -e in the singular change to -i in the plural, whether they are masculine or feminine. To find out its gender, look at the little words around it! The masculine plural article i tells us that giornali is a masculine noun. Why is the article i used here instead of gli?
Both i and gli mean "the" for masculine plural nouns. You use gli when the noun starts with a vowel, a z, or an s followed by a consonant (like gli stivali). Since giornali starts with a regular consonant (g), it takes the standard masculine plural article, i. Why does the adjective nuovi end in -i?
Adjectives must match the gender and number of the noun they describe. Because giornali is a masculine plural noun, the basic adjective nuovo (new) changes its ending to the masculine plural form, nuovi. I thought sono meant "I am". Why is it translated as "are" here?
The verb essere (to be) is slightly tricky because it uses the exact same word, sono, for both "I am" and "they are". You can always tell which one it is from the context. Here, the subject is i giornali (the newspapers), which acts as a "they," so sono means "are". Learn I giornali sono nuovi and more in Italian
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