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Hello everyone,
In today's lesson you will learn how to use the articles in Sicilian.
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Take some time to dive into these other pages after completing this lesson: Future Tense & Indefinite Articles in Sicilian.
Definite Articles in Italian & Sicilian[edit | edit source]
The Italian definite articles il, lo have a single Sicilian equivalent, lu.
Article la is identical in both languages. Italian includes several different plural articles: i, gli for masculine nouns, le for feminine ones.
In Sicilian there is only one plural article, li. In both languages the singular definite article is reduced to l'.
Before a vowel. In most dialects of Sicilian, the plural article is elided in the same way as the singular.
Definite articles in Sicilian: Examples[edit | edit source]
ENGLISH | SICILIAN |
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The horse | Lu cavaddu |
The dog | Lu cani |
The bird | L'aceddu |
The doctor | Lu medicu |
The house | La casa |
The city | La cità |
The window | La finestra |
The mouth | La vucca |
The horses | Li cavaddi |
The dogs | Li cani |
The birds | L'aceddi |
The doctors | Li medici |
The houses | Li casi |
The cities | Li cità |
The windows | Li finestri |
The mouths | Li vucchi |
Other Lessons[edit | edit source]
- Adverbs in Sicilian
- Indefinite Articles in Sicilian
- Possessive Case in Sicilian
- Conditional Tense
- Adjectives
- Articles
- Relative Pronouns
- Future Tense
- Demonstrative Pronouns