They are used to indicate a person or an object, as if pointing towards it
with a finger. As for the possessives, the adjectives and the pronouns for the
demonstratives have the same form. The Demonstrative Pronouns are:
| |
Singolare |
Singular |
|
Plurale |
Plural |
| Masc. |
questo |
this / this one |
|
questi |
these / these ones |
| Fem. |
questa |
this / this one |
|
queste |
these / these ones |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| Masc. |
quello |
that / that one |
|
quelli |
those / those ones |
| Fem. |
quella |
that / that one |
|
quelle |
those / those ones |
Examples:
- Questo č il tuo cane »
this is your dog, or this one is your dog
- Quella č mia madre » that
one (= that woman) is my mother
- Quelli sono i suoi libri »
those are his/her books, or those ones are his/her books
- Queste sono le nostre zie
» these are our aunts or these ones are our aunts
- Questa e quella sono
identiche » this one and that one are
identical
These pronouns may be used either as a subject of the sentence (as in the
previous examples), or as an object (as in the following sentences), in which
case the English translation always includes ...one:
- (egli / ella) non prese questa, ma
quella » he / she did not take this one, but that one
- (tu) comprerai quelli »
you will buy those ones
- Domani vernicerņ questi »
tomorrow I will paint these ones
- Preferite questo o
quello? » do you prefer this one or that
one?
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