Breakdown of I nuovi post sono molto interessanti.
Questions & Answers about I nuovi post sono molto interessanti.
Why is the plural of "post" not "posti"?
Foreign loanwords that end in a consonant, like post, bar, or computer, are invariable in Italian. This means they do not change their spelling in the plural. You can only tell the word is plural by looking at the words around it, like the plural article i and the plural adjective nuovi. If "post" doesn't change, how do we know it is a masculine noun?
Most foreign loanwords ending in a consonant are automatically treated as masculine in Italian. Because of this rule, we use the masculine articles il for the singular and i for the plural. Why does the adjective nuovi come before the noun here?
While most adjectives in Italian go after the noun, a handful of very common adjectives describing age, size, or beauty (like nuovo, vecchio, bello, buono) usually come before it. You could technically say i post nuovi, but i nuovi post flows more naturally and is the standard way to say it. Why doesn't molto change to molti to match the plural sentence?
In this sentence, molto is acting as an adverb meaning "very" to modify the adjective interessanti. Adverbs in Italian never change their endings. It would only change to molti if it were an adjective meaning "many" attached directly to a noun, such as molti post (many posts). Why does interessanti end in "-i" if it's describing masculine nouns?
The dictionary form of this adjective is interessante. Adjectives that end in "-e" in the singular use that same ending for both masculine and feminine nouns. When they become plural, that "-e" always changes to an "-i", no matter the gender. Learn I nuovi post sono molto interessanti and more in Italian
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