Spelling rules and phonetics
What Spelling rules and phonetics means in Italian GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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Verbs ending in -care and -gare add an 'h' to keep the hard sound, while verbs ending in -ciare and -giare drop the 'i'.
The feminine plural is not misspelled as '-ice'; an 'h' is added to maintain the hard 'c' sound, forming '-iche'.
Topics that use Spelling rules and phonetics
- Using common patterns between Italian and English - Nouns (AQA GCSE)
- Verbs (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Adjectival agreement
- Adjective agreement
- Auxiliary verbs
- Auxiliary verbs in the imperfect
- Cognates
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- Cognates and language patterns
- Cognates and near-cognates
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