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Remember that, as we saw in Unit 1, paragraph 19, the masculine plural form can also denote a class of people in general, as well as a group of males or a mixed group of males and females: e.g. i cantanti [m] can denote either  a group of male singers, or  a mixed group of male and female singers, or  singers in general. 

## Indefinite article 

5 Like the de fi nite article, the inde fi nite article (English ‘a/an’) has di ff erent forms, depending on the gender of the word it refers to and the letter (or sound) with which the following word begins. There is no plural for the inde fi nite article. Here are the forms: 

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6 The feminine forms un’  and una  are used before feminine words: 

un’  is used before words beginning with a vowel or h ; 

una  is used before words beginning with a consonant: 

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