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Junior Cycle Italian: Adjectives & possessives

How often Adjectives & possessives comes up on the Italian papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.

CL Asked on 1 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2026.

Adjectives & possessives, Common Level(9 marks)

Quick ones on Adjectives & possessives.

(a)How do you say 'a red car'?
  1. una macchina rosso
  2. una macchina rossa
  3. una rossa macchina
(b)How do you say 'My sisters are tall'?
  1. Mie sorelle sono alte
  2. Le mie sorelle sono alti
  3. Le mie sorelle sono alte
(c)How do you say 'my dog'?
  1. il mio cane
  2. la mia cane
  3. mio cane
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(a) una macchina rossa

(b) Le mie sorelle sono alte

(c) il mio cane

Your turn: Common Level questions on Adjectives & possessives.

Common Level

Asked on 1 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2026.

Every paper, year by year

YearWhere it came up
2026Q18
2025Not asked
2024Not asked
2023Not asked
2022Not asked

Links open the State Examinations Commission’s paper for that year.

More Adjectives & possessives questions

Adjectives & possessives, 3 marks

How do you say 'the white shoes'?

  1. le scarpe bianca
  2. le scarpe bianchi
  3. le scarpe bianche
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le scarpe bianche

Scarpe is feminine plural, so bianco becomes bianche (the h keeps the hard k sound). Bianchi is masculine plural: i calzini bianchi.

Adjectives & possessives, 3 marks

«La mia amica è intelligente e sportiva.» How do you say this about a male friend?

  1. Il mio amico è intelligenti e sportivo
  2. Il mio amico è intelligente e sportivo
  3. Il mio amico è intelligento e sportivo
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Il mio amico è intelligente e sportivo

Adjectives ending in -e are the same for boys and girls: intelligente, gentile. Adjectives in -o/-a change: sportivo, sportiva.

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