Describing Your Home in Italian
In this lesson, you will learn how to use common descriptive adjectives to talk about houses and rooms. In Italian, adjectives must match the gender (masculine or feminine) and number (singular or plural) of the noun they describe!
Key Adjectives
- bello (beautiful)
- brutto (ugly / bad)
- nuovo (new)
- vecchio (old)
- pulito (clean)
- sporco (dirty)
- grande (big)
- piccolo (small)
Rules for Gender
Most adjectives end in -o for masculine and -a for feminine in the singular:
- Il bagno è pulito. (The bathroom is clean. - masculine)
- La cucina è pulita. (The kitchen is clean. - feminine)
Adjectives ending in -e (like grande) stay the same for masculine and feminine: una casa grande (a big house) and un appartamento grande (a big apartment).
Common Mistakes
Don't forget to match the adjective! Saying la casa nuovo is incorrect because casa is feminine; you must say la casa nuova.
Words
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Patterns
La casa è ___.
Describes the house using an adjective.
Ho un ___ nuovo.
States that you have a new masculine item.