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## UNIT THREE Adjectives; possessive and demonstrative pronouns 

1 Adjectives in Italian must agree in gender and number with the noun they refer to: if the noun is masculine singular the adjective must be masculine singular, if the noun is feminine singular the adjective must be feminine singu- lar, etc. Adjectives therefore change their forms accordingly. But remember that when an adjective is listed in a dictionary or a grammar, it is given in its masculine singular form. In the masculine singular, most Italian adjectives end in -o  or in -e : 

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2 Adjectives ending in -o  have four di ff erent forms: -o  for the masculine singular ( italian o ), -a  for feminine singular ( italian a ), -i  for the masculine plural ( italian i ) and -e  for the feminine plural ( italian e ): 

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3 Adjectives ending in -e  have only two forms: -e  for the masculine and feminine singular ( frances e ) and -i  for the masculine and feminine plural ( frances i ). With adjectives ending in -e  there is thus no di ff erence between the masculine and the feminine form: 

