Learn Italian: Ho le dita molto fredde. - My fingers are very cold.

Le dita is a special irregular plural. The singular is the masculine word il dito (the finger). Several body parts in Italian are masculine in the singular but become feminine and end in -a in the plural. That's why it takes the feminine plural article le.

Since dita ends in -a, why does the adjective fredde end in -e?

Because le dita is a feminine plural noun, any adjectives describing it must also be feminine plural. The adjective freddo (cold) follows the regular rule for feminine plurals, changing its ending to -e.

The English translation is "My fingers are very cold." Why doesn't the Italian sentence use a possessive word like mie?

When talking about body parts, Italians rarely use possessive words (like "my" or "your"). Instead, they use the definite article (here, le) and often rephrase the sentence using the verb avere (to have). So instead of "My fingers are cold," an Italian naturally says Ho le dita molto fredde (literally, "I have the fingers very cold").

Why doesn't molto change to molte to match the feminine plural noun?