Nel, nella, nello
Can someone please help explain the differences between these and how to properly use them?
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Nel, nella, nello
Can someone please help explain the differences between these and how to properly use them?You know that italian words instead of a/an have il, lo or la, depending on the gender. ( e.g. il cane, lo scorpione, la gonna)
Nel is for word with il for example Io sono nel bar
nello is for words with lo and nella is for words that start with la
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The biggest issue about prepositions like "Nel, nella, nello, nelle, negli" is that there is no specific rule, it depends on what you wan to say. My advice is: just practise italian with someone, read a lot and watch TV shows with italian subtitles. However we could talk about the "morphology" of those words like: "nella" is used to refer to one thing or place which is a feminine word, e.g. "Le chiavi sono nella borsa" "borsa" is feminine singular, or "I leoni vivono nella savana" "savana" is feminine singular as well. Now "nelle" has the same meaning but it works for something that is feminine plural. And again "nello" is used for things or places that are masculine singular, whereas "negli" for things or places which are masculine plural. While "nel" for thing or places at singular where you don't want to use the others because it may sounds weird, at least for a italian mother-tongue.
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Nel, nella, nello
Can someone please help explain the differences between these and how to properly use them?To elaborate a little more...
In Italian, most of the prepositions form what is called an articulated preposition (article combined with a preposition) . If the preposition "in" is followed by the article "il" it HAS to be combined to become "nel", meaning that if you write "Sono in il bar" it will always be wrong. It must be "Sono nel bar". Here are all the combined articles and prepositions for "in":
in + il = nel
in + i = nei
in + gli = negli
in + lo = nello
in + la = nella
in + le = nelle
Other prepositions that follow this pattern: "a" (al, alla, agli etc.), "da", (dal, dalla, dagli, etc.), "di" (del, della, degli, etc.) and "su" (sul, sulla, sugli, etc.)
Prepositions that do not follow this pattern: "per", "con" (sometimes you may see "col" or other forms, but its use has died out in modern Italian)
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Nel, nella, nello
Can someone please help explain the differences between these and how to properly use them?You use nel with masculine nouns, nella with feminine nouns and nello with masculine nouns that start with gn, sc, ps, pn, x,y,z or with i, j or y followed by a vowel:
nel quartiere
nella scuola
nello xilofono
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