Italian definite articles (2)

Once you know Italian definite articles, you have to deal with another problem: when it is necessary to put the article before a substantive and when it is not. While sometimes there are some grammar rules to follow, in other situations it’s only the custom of the language that determines when to use the article or not.

Italian definite articles (1)

Definite articles (articoli determinativi) are used when it is clear which thing or person we are talking about. While in English definite articles has only one form (the), in Italian they have different forms according to the gender (genere) and the number (numero) of the noun they refer to. This means that the articles we use with masculine nouns are different from those we use with feminine nouns and there is also a difference between singular and plural nouns.