Italian possessive adjectives

Possessive adjectives (aggettivi possessivi) are used to express possession; they tell us whom an object, a person or an animal belong to. They correspond to the English my, your, his, her, its, our, your and their.

Italian direct object pronouns

We already know Italian subject pronouns io, tu, lui/lei, noi, voi and loro which indicate the subject of the sentence who carries out the action. But besides the subject a sentence can have a direct object: the thing, person or animal who represents the recipient of the action of the verb.

Italian adjectives and their position

Italian adjectives must be put before or after the noun?

While in English adjectives always precede the noun, in Italian they are usually placed after the noun, even if some common adjectives (brutto = ugly, bello = beautiful, nuovo = new, cattivo = bad, grande = big, piccolo = small…) can be placed also before the noun.