Learn Italian: I vostri gatti sono molto belli. - Your cats are very beautiful.

I vostri gatti sono molto belli.

Your cats are very beautiful.

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Questions & Answers about I vostri gatti sono molto belli.

Why do we say I vostri gatti instead of just Vostri gatti?

In Italian, you almost always need to use a definite article (like il, la, i, or le) right before a possessive word. Because gatti (cats) is masculine plural, we use the masculine plural article i before vostri.

When do I use i vostri instead of i tuoi for "your"?

You use i vostri when you are talking to more than one person (like saying "you guys' cats" or "y'all's cats"). If you were talking to just one single person about their cats, you would use i tuoi instead.

Since gatti is plural, why doesn't molto change to molti?

When molto is used to mean "very" (describing how beautiful they are), it acts as an adverb and never changes its ending. It only changes to match the noun (molti, molte) when it means "many" or "a lot of" (for example, molti gatti means "many cats").

Why does belli end in -i?