How to use demonstrative pronouns in Italian

How to use demonstrative pronouns in Italian

You want to learn how to use demonstrative pronouns in Italian? You've come to the right place! Scroll down and see the short Italian lessons complete with useful examples. This house, that house... we make learning Italian demonstrative pronouns easy for you.

Italian demonstrative pronouns : this

Demonstrative pronouns are used with nouns to make them more specific. The English demonstrative pronoun 'this' is 'questo' or 'questa' in Italian. The word 'questo' is used with masculine words and the word 'questa' is used with feminine words.

Examples

questo libro
this book
questa porta
this door
questa donna
this woman
questo bambino
this child
questo tavolo
this table
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Step 6 : Italian demonstrative pronouns

Demonstrative pronouns are used to refer to specific objects and their locations. In English, this would be the words this and these to refer to objects which are near and that and those to refer to objects which are further away. Using the nouns libro, sedia and porta (book, chair, door) which you learned in Step 3, learn to use the demonstrative pronouns with each of these nouns (this book, that chair, these doors). You can scroll to the top of this page to see a short lesson about Italian demonstrative pronouns including useful examples. After you've learned to use the Italian demonstrative pronouns with the nouns libro, sedia and porta and the plural nouns libri, sedie and porte you can move on to Step 7 (Italian adjectives).

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