{"id":15713,"date":"2023-06-12T17:39:12","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T15:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oneworlditaliano.com\/?p=15713"},"modified":"2023-07-17T13:43:54","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T11:43:54","slug":"you-write-un-altro-and-unaltra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oneworlditaliano.com\/en\/italian-grammar\/how-do-you-spell-that\/you-write-un-altro-and-unaltra\/","title":{"rendered":"You write &#8220;un altro&#8221; and &#8220;un&#8217;altra&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">A common mistake in Italian, which creates great confusion, is the use of the apostrophe with the indefinite articles &#8220;un&#8221; and &#8220;una&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Un<\/strong>\u00a0is the masculine singular indefinite article that is used in front of all words that begin with a vowel and is never apostrophized.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">For this reason the correct form is <strong>un altro<\/strong>, detached and without the apostrophe.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Oggi la giornata \u00e8 nuvolosa. Andremo al mare <span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">un altro<\/span> giorno.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">L&#8217;insegnante lo ha avvertito: <span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">un altro<\/span> errore e la verifica \u00e8 annullata.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Ho comprato <span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">un altro<\/span> paio di occhiali. Gli altri si erano rotti.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Conversely, <strong>una<\/strong> is the feminine singular indefinite article that loses the final &#8220;a&#8221; and takes the apostrophe when followed by a word starting with a vowel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The correct form is <strong>un&#8217;altra<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Oggi il cinema \u00e8 chiuso. Ci andremo <span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">un&#8217;altra<\/span> volta.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Vorrei avere <span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">un&#8217;altra<\/span> casa dove trascorrere la vacanze estive.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Questa \u00e8 <span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">un&#8217;altra<\/span> questione.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">To avoid making a mistake, a general rule can be applied: in the presence of an indefinite article, the apostrophe is used only when the following word is of feminine gender.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The same rule also applies to the expressions <strong>qualcun altro<\/strong> and <strong>qualcun&#8217;altra<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Oggi non ti posso accompagnare a lavoro. Chiedi a <span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">qualcun altro<\/span>.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Io e Maria andiamo al cinema stasera. <span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">Qualcun&#8217;altra<\/span> di voi vuole venire?<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Articoli indeterminativi un e una: esercizio<\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><div class=\"h5p-iframe-wrapper\"><iframe id=\"h5p-iframe-762\" class=\"h5p-iframe\" data-content-id=\"762\" style=\"height:1px\" src=\"about:blank\" frameBorder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"Articoli indeterminativi un e una: esercizio\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>See also:<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oneworlditaliano.com\/en\/italian-grammar\/how-do-you-spell-that\/apostrophe-italian\/\">The apostrophe in Italian<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A common mistake in Italian, which creates great confusion, is the use of the apostrophe with the indefinite articles &#8220;un&#8221; and &#8220;una&#8221;. Un\u00a0is the masculine singular indefinite article that is used in front of all words that begin with a vowel and is never apostrophized. For this reason the correct form is un altro, detached and without the apostrophe. Oggi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[619],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-do-you-spell-that"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>You write &quot;un altro&quot; and &quot;un&#039;altra&quot; - How do you spell that?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The indefinite article &quot;un&quot; is never apostrophized. 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