Neapolitan/Doubling
Doubling of Initial Consonants
[edit | edit source]In the Neapolitan Language, there are many words that will cause a doubling for the initial consonant. These are usually predictable, but you must memorize which words do and don't cause a doubling. Words that do, are shown below:
- A plural feminine adjective preceding a plural feminine word will cause a doubling (vecchie ffemmene)
- A singular neuter adjective preceding a singular neuter word will cause doubling (buono ppane)
- The feminine plural article 'e ('e ffemene)
- The neuter singular article 'o ('o ppane)
- The conjunctions e and né (pane e ccaso)
- The prepositions a, pe, and cu (a mme, pe tte)
- Negation nu (nu mmo)
- Indefinites ogne and cocche (ogne ccasa)
- Interragative and relative che (che ffemene!)
- accussí (accussí bbello)
- From the verb essere but not songo (so' ppazzo)
- chiu (chiu ppocco)
- The number tre (tre ffemene)
- chistu and chillu when referring to neuter nouns of indefinite quantities (chillu ppane)
- lloco
- From the verb stà (staje ssempe)
- From the verb puté (pô ssapé)