1. Descriptive Adjectives
Italian Grammar

2. The question, “Com’è?” meaning, “How is it?”
Answering this question requires the knowledge of using descriptive adjectives.
For example in English a descriptive adjective is, “pretty.”
The pretty (adjective) girl (noun).
Descriptive adjectives are words that modify or describe nouns (person, place or thing).

3. Regole/Rules
In Italian, adjectives are usually placed after the noun they modify in a sentence.
For example:
È una casa bella.
It is a pretty/beautiful house.

4. Ancora Regole/ More Rules
Italian adjectives agree in:
gender (masculine or feminine) and
in number (singular or plural)
with the nouns they modify.
In other words, the final vowel is changed according to the gender and number being modified.

5. Adjective-Noun Agreement
For example when modifying masculine nouns with adjectives such as bello the end is –o only if it is singular and when it is plural it ends in –i making it belli.
Singolare
Plurale
Maschile
Il bambino bello
I bambini belli
Femminile
La bambina bella
Le bambine belle

6. Singular: Il bambino bello

7. Plural: I bambini belli

8. Regole
For example, when modifying feminine nouns with adjectives such as bella the end is –a only if it is singular and when it is plural it ends in –e making it belle.

9. Singular: La bambina bella

10. Plural: Le bambine belle

11. Recap
First look at the noun, and then determine if it is masculine or feminine and singular or plural.
Finally, choose the correct ending for the adjective:
-o for m. s.
-i for m. pl.
-a for f. s.
-e for f. p.

12. Esercizi: (exercises)
Com’è il bambino? How is the boy?
Il bambino è The boy is pretty. (m.s.)
Com’è la bambina? How is the girl?
La bambina è The girl is pretty. (f. s.)
Come sono le bambine? How are the girls?
Le bambine sono . The girls are pretty (f. p).
Come sono i bambini? How are the boys?
I bambini sono The boys are pretty (m.p.)