Level: A1 · 18 min of study
In una casa: «Questa è la cucina. C’è un tavolo, una sedia e il frigorifero. Vuoi un caffè o del tè?» Hai notato quelle paroline davanti ai nomi — il, la, un, una, del? Sono gli articoli.
Che cos’è un articolo?
Look at the examples and notice the words in BOLD. An article is a short word that goes BEFORE a noun and carries two pieces of information: (1) whether we mean something known/specific (definite article: il, la — like English “the”) or something new/non-specific (indefinite article: un, una — like English “a/an”); (2) the gender and number of the noun. English does the first part too, but NOT the second — “the” and “a” never change for gender. Try to work it out: why is it “il” once and “la” another time? We’ll confirm it in the next sections — it depends on the noun’s gender (masculine/feminine).
- **il** libro — the book — specific, known
- **un** libro — a book — one of many
- **la** casa — the house / home
- **del** pane — some bread
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