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Adjectives describe nouns. In Italian, adjectives must agree in gender (masculine/feminine) and number (singular/plural) with the noun they modify.
Most adjectives end in -o in the masculine singular and have 4 distinct forms:
Adjectives ending in -e in the singular have the same form for masculine and feminine. They change to -i in the plural!
Unlike English, most descriptive adjectives in Italian are placed AFTER the noun (e.g., una macchina rossa). However, common everyday adjectives of size/beauty/quality often come BEFORE the noun: bello (beautiful), buono (good), grande (big), piccolo (small), nuovo (new), vecchio (old), giovane (young).
How should the adjective "bello" agree with "le case" (feminine plural)?
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