How to say "THE" in Italian (Definite Articles) - Beginner Italian Course: Lesson 17

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[@jackieo8693]

"The" is the one time English is easier than other languages!

[@DanyyyyyJPF]

it has no gender, only has a (an), easy plurals with only a few rarely used irregular plurals, no verb conjugation, only am, is and are and it is also super widely used across every country which makes it easy to learn.

[@jackieo8693]

@@DanyyyyyJPF yes, it's the pronunciation based strictly on the spelling that's difficult.

[@vjosullivan]

@@DanyyyyyJPF There is (some) verb conjugation. An 's' is generally added to verbs to indicate third person singular. This is in contrast to nouns where adding an 's' indicates plural. Hence: One dog barks and two dogs bark.

[@DanyyyyyJPF]

well you have to agree it is not hard at ALL compared to italian, german, or russian (which is pretty notorious for having a lot of verb conjugations and i know russian)

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@@DanyyyyyJPF Russian is impossible with that odd alphabet

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Manu!! I've been studying ltalian for a couple of years...no one has ever explained definite articles ESPECIALLY the GLI like you have here....finally i understand!!!! grazie mille~

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[@rodrigofernandesgoncalves9564]

I am a Brazilian (therefore Portuguese "madrelingua") and I can imagine how hard it sounds to English speaking people to master the use of these articles. Even to us (who speak Latin languages) the Italian is a little challenging (in Portuguese we have "just" 4 definite articles: 1 for masculine singular, 1 for masculine plural, 1 for feminine singular and, finally, 1 for feminine plural words), but what he said at the end of this video is really true: you MUST LISTEN a lot of Italian and the use of these articles will come automatically to your active vocabulary. Don't worry too much to master these rules. They help you to understand the concept but don't try to think about them before you talk. That will be useless and even dangerous for your learning. By the way: nowadays I don't miss use the Italian articles but it took me time to introspect and assimilate... Good luck! ☺️😜

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[@sjdyt]

Grazie mille. I’d eventually worked out il, i, la, le and l’ on my current learning platform but lo and gli…! Hopefully I’ll get it right more often now 😊

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[@parisasiahkamari4088]

Great grazie mille

[@giovanna5643]

Very well explained. Thank you 😀

[@notwoermi9750]

If you need a rule so that you know when to use "Lo": You use "Lo" before: "s + consonant, ps, pn, gn, x, y, z"

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[@gtv_archangel]

LO becomes IL if there is something in between though, right? Like LO ZAINO, IL MIO ZAINO It’s not lo mio zaino is it?

[@notwoermi9750]

the reason for this is that "mio" changes to the following word after the article and it doesnt fall into the category i mentioned in my last comment 🤌🏽🤌🏽@@gtv_archangel

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Grazie a te!

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Semplicemente fenomenale👍 La pronuncia perfetta in entrambi le lingue 👍 Sicuramente sei bilingue. Mi fai ridere come spieghi bene 👍 con le spiegazioni che dai 👍 . Sei unico👍 per me il migliore che spiega in italiano / inglese💐👍 Bravissimo.💐👍

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Then there's German with 16 different ways! (although there are many repetitions; actually only six individual forms). Der, die, das, dem, den, des

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thanks so much for finally making this clear ':-)

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As I know fragments of Spanish,it is much easier for me to assimilate the words as they they quite similar

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[@edwardcarlton]

I speak Albanian, though though I am not fully fluent. Man, I wish Albanian was this easy. Learning Albanian is a torture session. Doable bug hard. No definite article in Albanian. It's attached to the word.

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where I can find list of words with Articles ?? I would like to learn by heart!

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As a native Polish speaker I must say, if I haven't been exposed to English articles first, this would be nightmare for me to understand, as my native language doesn't have articles, and often I get them wrong in English anyway :P

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Hai ragione, Manu. "Gli" e molto difficile da pronunciare per me, è un incubo. haha

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Look for the nasoni (water fountains) scattered throughout the city for free drinks of water

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I noticed the singular masculine for theses words, panino,Libro, bambino,gelato, when plural, the “ O” at the end of each word became an I

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Hi Anche a Luca piace l'arte italiana. What is that A means before Luca. I have seen it a few times now , but dont know why ot is there Thanks

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I didnt communicate with other italian Please also tell with grammar How to say this in italian I want i do i cant i play i sleep i go shopping i run i donot need etc

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Simple?

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What about the start of this video "seven - sette"? Is 7 some kind of evil number in italy?

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Ciao! It's just because 7 ways to translate "THE" seems evil and scary 😂 but Friday 17th is considered unlucky in Italy though!

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Let's make it "sample" lol-ino

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Do we really need to know the word for a single string of spaghetti?

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In greek we have more than 18

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What the GLI!!!! 😲😳

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Love the content, however this video, along with the last 2, is where I started losing confidence lol

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I do not understand why it's supposed to be "l'amico" and "l'italiano" as opposed to "il amico" and "il italiano". There is no logical reason for it and "il amico" / "il italiano" is easier to say than using l' . 11:28 I think you mean "spelled", not "pronounced"

[@LaOrajPantalonoj]

it seems that Lo, L', Gli its kind of neutral gender ;)

[@gherrera3697]

Lost

[@djmotise]

Do we really need to know the word for igloo? Lol. Isn't there are more useful word to learn?

[@LaurieMavesART]

Manu!! I've been studying ltalian for a couple of years...no one has ever explained definite articles ESPECIALLY the GLI like you have here....finally i understand!!!! grazie mille~

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