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Italian

language, modern language

Subclass of	Italo-Romance, Southern European language
Native label	italiano, Italiano
Country	Italy, San Marino, Switzerland, Vatican City
Linguistic typology	subject–verb–object, syllabic language, noun-adjective, pro-drop language
Has grammatical case	nominative case
Has grammatical gender	masculine, feminine
Writing system	Italian alphabet, Latin script
Language regulatory body	Accademia della Crusca
UNESCO language status	1 safe
Ethnologue language status	1 National
Studied in	Italian studies
Hashtag	italian
Has conjugation class	first conjugation in Italian, second conjugation in Italian, third conjugation in Italian
Related category	Category:Italian pronunciation
Entry in abbreviations table	итал.
Stack Exchange site URL	https://italian.stackexchange.com
Stack Exchange tag	https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/tags/italian
Wikimedia language code	it
P7829	nil

On this page, we want to document a common way of modelling Italian lexemes.

General

Language item

Italian (Q652)

Language code

• it is the main code used.

Lexical categories

• noun (Q1084)
• verb (Q24905)
• adjective (Q34698)
• adverb (Q380057)
• proper noun (Q147276)
• conjunction (Q36484)
• preposition (Q4833830)
• article (Q103184)
• pronoun (Q36224)
• grammatical particle (Q184943)
• numeral (Q63116)

Properties

• Treccani Vocabulary ID (P5844)
• Garzanti Linguistica ID (P6266)
• Il Nuovo De Mauro ID (P12420)
• Tesoro della Lingua Italiana delle Origini ID (P12825)
• Tommaseo-Bellini Online ID (P12826)
• Wikidata:Property_proposal/Il_Nuovo_DOP_ID

Some suggestions

In case of doubt:

• Don't panic
• Look for other examples, maybe the same lexeme exists also in English?
• Google your doubt!
• Have no fear to ask someone!
• Leave it as it is (remember that fixing is expensive)

• Creating lexemes
  • Please, don't create a lexeme for every word! pizze (L3055-F2) is a form of the main lexeme pizza (L3055)
  • Check before creating a lexeme, that's the best way to avoid duplicates
  • Please, don't create a lexeme for every combination of words... it wouldn't be useful. Some exceptions could be proverb (Q35102) or nominal locution (Q29888377).
• Case
  • Nouns, verbs, adverbs... we always prefer the lowercase standard: gatto (L5577)
  • Proper nouns are written with uppercase: Città del Vaticano (L22781)
• Verbs are tough
  • There are many many exceptions, don't underestimate them.
  • Don't add the tenses formed by the auxiliary like past anterior (Q1101896), they're not useful.
• And moreover...
  • In the lexeme forms, be careful of grammatical features! The suggestions are misleading. Do not use men's singles (Q16893072), use masculine singular (Q47088290)
  • Whenever it's possible, add grammatical gender (P5185). Be careful because in Italian we have exceptions like dito (L580890-F1) - dita (L580890-F3).

Of course, if you don't agree with something written here, let's discuss it!

Work to do

• Add senses to nouns/verbs
• Add derived from lexeme (P5191), it's interesting and useful. Remember to support it via references.
• Add combines lexemes (P5238). It can be used for proverb (Q35102) or nominal locution (Q29888377), but also for many other lexemes, like supermercato (L684235).

Queries

• Count of Italian lexemes grouped by category
• Italian demonyms on a World map
• Countries divided by genre on a map

Links

• Categoria:Aggettivi in italiano in the italian Wiktionary