Plural Forms (Part V)

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Today I am going to give you the final plural form rules and how they work in Italian.


I hope you find easy to understand them.  Are you ready?
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Female words ending on -cia; -gia:

If they have a vowel before -cia or -gia they keep the -i at the plural:

Singular		Plural
Italian	English	Italian	English
camicia	shirt	camicie	shirts
cilegia	cherry	cilegie	cherries

If they have a consonant before -cia; -gia the -i is lost:

Singular		Plural
Italian	English	Italian	English
provincia	province	province	provinces
pioggia	rain	piogge	rains

Irregular Plural forms:

Singular		Plural
Italian	English	Italian	English
Dio	God	dei	gods
bue	donkey	buoi	donkeys
mille	thousand	mila	thousands
		duemila	two thousand
lenzuolo	blanket	lenzuola	blankets
ciglio	eyelash	ciglia	eyelashes
sopracciglio	eyebrow	sopracciglia	eyebrows
labbro	lip	labbra	lips
ginocchio	knee	ginocchia	knees

Words that are normally used in their plural form:

Plural
Italian	English
gli occhiali	The glasses
le forbici	The scissors
le stoviglie	The plates
le manette	The handcuffs

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