Italian GCSE

Spelling rules and double consonants

What Spelling rules and double consonants means in Italian GCSE, as defined for AQA.

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Italian phonology often assimilates adjacent different consonants into a double consonant, so the English '-dv-' becomes the Italian double consonant '-vv-'.

AQA · Using common patterns between Italian and English - Nouns

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