ABSTRACT
Nouns (i sostantivi) are words for naming people, animals, places, things and abstractions such as emotions and ideas. Anna, dog, Rome, car, anger and justice are all nouns. In Italian, nouns have a gender (un genere): they are either masculine (maschili) or feminine (femminili) and most of them have a different form for the singular (il singolare) and the plural (il plurale).
