Italian articles exercises
Practice Italian articles, noun gender and plurals, then build sentences with word-order exercises.
Look up a noun
Explore its article and plural
Test yourself with a quick drill
32 common nouns and exceptions. Unknown nouns are not assigned a guessed gender.
Masculine · student (male)
lo studente → gli studenti
Indefinite: uno studente
Nouns in -e usually become -i. Lo is used before s + consonant.
Notice both gender and the first sound.
Endings are useful clues, but learn each noun with its article. Some everyday nouns break the common patterns.
il libro → i libri · un libro
the book → the books · a book
Most masculine nouns beginning with an ordinary consonant use il / i; the indefinite article is un.
Put the pattern into practice
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Italian word-order exercises
Sentence 1 / 8. Select words in order; select a word in your answer to return it.
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