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Wednesday
Dec262007

italian regions - adjectival forms

Someone from Canada is a Canadian. Someone from the U.S. is an American. But what do you call people from the various Italian regions we learned a while back? That's the topic of today's Italian flashcard set - it's not always obvious!

Take note - the region (a noun) is capped but the adjectival form is not. E.g. the region is Toscana (cap). The adjectival form ("Tuscan wine") is toscano - vino toscano. No cap. A resident of the region ("a Tuscan" in English) is un toscano (an adjective used as a noun - still no cap).

Abruzzo
abruzzese

Basilicata
lucano, -a

Calabria
calabrese

Campania
campano, -a

Emilia-Romagna
emiliano, -a; romagnolo, -a

Friuli-Venezia Giulia
friulano, -a; giuliano, -a

Lazio
una persona del Lazio (the adjective "laziale" isn't used as a noun to refer to residents of Lazio)

Liguria
ligure

Lombardia
lombardo, -a

Marche
marchigiano, -a

Molise
molisano, -a

Piemonte
piemontese

Puglia
pugliese

Sardegna
sardo, -a

Sicilia
siciliano, -a

Toscana
toscano, -a

Trentino-Alto Adige
trentino, -a; altoatesino, -a

Umbria
umbro, -a

Valle d'Aosta
valdostano, -a

Veneto
veneto, -a

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