ITA 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pretzel

• School: University at Buffalo
• Department: Italian
• Course: ITA 101
• Professor: Andrew Serio

Document Summary

Topics: (1) singular italian nouns (2) indeterminate article (3) new vocabulary (1) singular italian nouns (sostantivi singolari italiani): A noun can be either masculine or feminine. The table below shows the noun endings for both genders. Most masculine nouns end in o and most feminine nouns end in a. If a noun ends in zione it is feminine. Otherwise, if a noun ends in e it is usually required to memorize the gender of the noun (you can find out the gender through an online italian-english dictionary). The italian z is pronounced as if a t preceded it in english, like the tz in pretzel. Examples: pesci pay-shee, scegli shay-yee, grazie grah-tzee-ay (2) the indeterminate article (l"articolo indeterminativo) The indeterminate article is the equivalent to the english a and an, as in an apple or a hill. the table below shows the different indeterminate articles for each of the two genders. Lecture 3 singular italian nouns and indefinite articles.