nouns

Question 1

what is a noun

Answer 1

words indicating people, animals, things, places, activities, abstract concepts

Question 2

what is inflection

Answer 2

a change in the form of a word, usually at the end of the word, italian is a highly inflected language

Question 3

nouns and gender in italian

Answer 3

all nouns are assigned a gender, these are not related to natural gender

Question 4

endings of masculine nouns

Answer 4

-o
-e
-tore/-ore

Question 5

endings of feminine nouns

Answer 5

-a
-e
-essa/-trice
-ione

Question 6

inanimate objects

Answer 6

they cannot switch assigned genders

Question 7

endings of plural masculine nouns

Answer 7

-o = -i
-e = -i
-co/-go = -chi/ghi
- accented endings stay the same
- “english” words stay the same
- shortened words stay the same

Question 8

endings of plural feminine nouns

Answer 8

-a = -e
-e = -i
-ca/-ga = -che/ghe
- accented endings stay the same
- “english” words stay the same
- shortened words stay the same