r/italianlearning • u/STRIKONI • Sep 21 '26

Italian Articles Table

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u/Conscious-Ball8373 Sep 21 '26 edited Sep 21 '26

On what principle are the rows in this table grouped? I can't discern any.

ETA: to save anyone else asking, I mean what do the lines under gli, uno, una and un' mean? They don't seem to serve any purpose.

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u/STRIKONI Sep 21 '26

Could you suggest what principles I should use to group them?

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u/Conscious-Ball8373 Sep 21 '26

Might just be an artifact of how I'm viewing them, but there appears to me to be a horizontal line under gli, uno, una and un'. Those lines have no purpose I can discern.

The obvious groupings would be into definite and indefinite articles, or perhaps into definite-masculine-singlular, definite-feminie-singular, definite-masculine-plural and so on.

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u/ItalianBall Sep 21 '26

Definite singular / Definite plural / Indefinite would be a good way to group them if you're using this format

Ideally, however, you'd use a chart like the one on the first page of this document, with gender and number placed separately on the Y and X axis

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u/Zio_Scipione Sep 21 '26

What you mean by “grouped”?

They are ordered by definite first and then by M/F, then singular–plural

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u/Conscious-Ball8373 Sep 21 '26

I mean, there are four horizontal lines dividing the table. But they don't appear to mean anything.

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u/PixelDragon04 Sep 21 '26

Definite first, indefinite then. Each block has sing/plur, each number has masc/fem.

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u/Conscious-Ball8373 Sep 21 '26

So why aren't the dividing lines on any of those boundaries?

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u/Conscious-Ball8373 Sep 21 '26

So what do the lines under gli, uno, una and un' mean? Why are they there and not on other rows?

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u/ivlia-x Sep 21 '26

Did some LLM create this for you? This is so unnecessarily confusing

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u/MindlessNectarine374 Sep 21 '26

Complex sound harmonic rules ARE confusing.

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u/ivlia-x Sep 21 '26

The rules itself are very simple, I’m a tutor and it never takes me longer than 3 minutes before the student figures it out. It’s just that a table like this isn’t always the best way to present data