Italian Grammar

An adjective is a word that defines or describes a noun. Italian adjectives can have different endings and most of them agree with the gender and number of the noun they refer to.

An adverb is a word that can modify a verb, an adjective, other adverbs and also whole sentences. Italian adverbs can be a single word or multi-words. They are invariable, which means that they do not vary in gender and quantity.

An article is a word, usually very short, that precedes a noun and indicates whether it is a specific person, thing, concept or not. All Italian articles match the noun’s gender and quantity.

Miscellaneous section includes all those grammar concepts that do not fit into a specific category such as "verb" or "noun".

Italian verbs are conjugated according to the subject, number, mood and tense. The mood expresses the attitude of the speaker towards the action that is being described. The Italian language has seven moods.

A noun is a word that indicates a person, an animal, a place, a thing or a concept. Italian is a gendered language, therefore all nouns have a gender.

Prepositions are words that link different parts of a sentence together showing the type of relationship between them, such as time or location.

A pronoun is a word that stands in for a noun, mainly to avoid repetition and get more flow.

A tense is the form of a verb that expresses the time when an action takes place.

A verb is the heart of a sentence and it expresses an act, an event or a way of being. Italian verbs need to be conjugated, which means that their endings vary depending on different factors.