Noun gender and number
What Noun gender and number means in Italian GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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All Italian nouns ending in '-zione' are feminine, require feminine articles like 'la' or 'una', and form the plural by changing the ending to '-zioni', which remains feminine.
Nouns ending in -ione are almost always feminine, taking articles like la or una, and form the plural by changing the final -e to -i.
Nouns ending in '-tà' are feminine and invariable in the plural, so only the definite or indefinite article changes.
Topics that use Noun gender and number
- Using common patterns between Italian and English - Nouns (AQA GCSE)
- Using common patterns within Italian (AQA GCSE)
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