Italian Definite Articles and Possessive Adjectives

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Ça fait plaisir! Merci et bon courage avec l'italien!

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Glad to help!

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I'm teaching myself Italian and I always wondered what the gli was when I would see a script. Loved how you broke it down! Grazie!!!

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So clear. Thank you very much. I now have a better understanding of definite articles, indefinite articles, and possession in Italian. I speak English and some Spanish and this concept is a bit more trickier than both of them and I've never seen something quite like this before. I hope I can speak this beautiful language someday.

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Great advice! Thank you

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I was struggling with gli and that little comment you made about it helped a lot. Nice one!

Glad to help! :)

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Ciao Tom, ottimo lavoro! Volevo solo darti un piccolo suggerimento da insegnante: la ragione per cui Lo zaino o Lo schermo diventano Il mio zaino o Il mio schermo, quando c'è l'aggettivo possessivo, è perché la parola "mio" o "tuo" cominciano con una consonante semplice e quindi l'articolo determinativo che precede diventa "il" :)

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Ruth Jimenez I'm Italian and I don't think gli pronounce was explained clearly.... It's hard to explain but I think that we stick 2mm from the edge of tongue to the palate and than we stick off the front part... I don't know if I explained it right... It's just a thing that we never think about.. (as you probably don't think about your TH sound which a lot of may friends find hard...). I think he's a good grammar teacher but don't care too much about his pronounce... P.S. Wheilá is only used in SOUTH ITALY! (the stress is on the last vowel, and in Italian you NEVER stick ei together in an unic sound!... so it becomes: /ueilááá/ or something like that...)

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Weilà Tom Million is not even close (I'm Italian)

[@ameliabender2242]

This helped me so much! I have an Italian quiz tomorrow and I was having trouble memorizing all the indefinite articles, and no matter how hard I tried I couldn't find a pattern to help me memorize them.

I'm happy to help! Good luck on the quiz tomorrow!

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I never had intentions to learn Italian but now I do. This language sounds just beautiful! And I find it interesting that the possessive pronouns are connected with the definite articles because it's the same in the Scandinavian languages as well. In Norwegian for instance. a house is et hus. the house is huset. and my house is huset mitt. And may I say that your eyes are beautiful!^^ Thank you for this video.

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