The
"The" in Italian
gli
(article)
i
(article)
i
(with an adjectival noun, as in “the hungry” to mean “hungry people”)
il
(article)
il
(used as an alternative to a possessive pronoun before body parts)
il
(with a superlative)
il
(used with the name of a member of a class to refer to all things in that class)
l'
(article)
la
(article)
le
(article)
li
(introducing dates in a letter, such as "the 1st of May 2025")
lo
(article)
lì
(introducing dates in a letter, such as "the 1st of May 2025")
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.