Practice using Italian demonstrative adjectives
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| Do you know how to use the demonstrative adjectives questo, quello, questa, quella, questi, quei, and queste,quelle in Italian? |
| Welcome to Three Step Italian Practice by ItalianPod101.com. In this lesson, you will practice how to use some Italian demonstrative adjectives. |
| Let's look at the main dialogue. |
| Two people are having a conversation. A woman is asking the shopkeeper about the price of a painting. |
| Scusi, quanto costa questo quadro? |
| "Excuse me, how much does this painting cost?" |
| Quale quadro? Questo quadro qui? |
| "Which painting? This painting, here?" |
| questo quadro |
| means "this painting." |
| questo |
| is used here because questo is the demonstrative adjective, meaning "this," referring to the masculine singular noun quadro "painting." |
| There are other demonstrative adjectives in Italian, which depend on the noun's gender and number. |
| In Italian, if the noun is masculine and singular, questo means "this," and quello means "that." |
| If the noun is feminine and singular, then questa means "this" and quella means "that." |
| When talking about plural nouns, the endings change. |
| For masculine plural nouns, questi means "these," and quei means "those." |
| For feminine plural nouns, queste means "these" and quelle means "those." |
| Apart from these four forms, there are other variants. So be sure to check the Lesson Notes on our website for all the variants. |
| Let's practice this grammar point more in this lesson. |
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