Breakdown of Gli editori hanno preparato gli elenchi degli storici.
gli
the
avere
to have
di
of, from
preparare
to prepare
l'editore
the publisher (m)
l'elenco
the list (directory, roster) (m)
lo storico
the historian
Questions & Answers about Gli editori hanno preparato gli elenchi degli storici.
Why does elenchi get an 'h' in the plural, but storici doesn't, when both singulars end in -co?
This is the main rule for masculine nouns ending in -co. It depends on where the spoken stress falls. In elenco (e-LEN-co), the stress is on the second-to-last syllable, so we add an 'h' to keep the hard 'c' sound, making it elenchi. In storico (STO-ri-co), the stress is on the third-to-last syllable, so the plural ending becomes a soft 'c' without the 'h', making it storici.
How do you pronounce the endings of elenchi and storici?
Is editori a false friend? It looks exactly like the English word 'editors'.
Yes, it is a false friend! An editore is actually a publisher. If you want to talk about an editor of a text, you would use a word like redattore or curatore.
Why do we use degli before storici instead of just di?
In Italian, you almost always combine the preposition di (of) with the definite article (the). Because storici is plural and starts with an 's' followed by a consonant ('t'), it requires the article gli. When you combine di and gli, it forms the combined preposition degli.
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