Gender and number agreement
What Gender and number agreement means in Italian GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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When using these nouns in the plural, any accompanying adjectives or articles must agree with the feminine plural form rather than the masculine.
When 'essere' is the auxiliary, the past participle must agree in gender and number with the subject, changing its ending to -o, -a, -i or -e.
As adjectives, these words must agree in gender and number with the noun they describe, using '-oso', '-osa', '-osi' or '-ose'.
Topics that use Gender and number agreement
- Nouns (AQA GCSE)
- Using common patterns within Italian (AQA GCSE)
- Verbs (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Adjectival agreement
- Adjective agreement
- Adjective modification
- Adverb formation
- Antonyms and negation
- Auxiliary verbs
- Auxiliary verbs in the imperfect
- Compound tenses
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