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First-class adjectives

In the first sentence, “piccolo” is an adjective modifying “paese” (meaning “small village”).
In the second sentence, “piccole” is an adjective modifying “avventure” (meaning “little adventures”). Since “avventure” is plural, the adjective also needs to be plural to match in gender and number.

Piccolo, in fact, is an adjective of the first class in Italian, which means that it follows the standard pattern of adjective agreement.
It agrees in gender and number with the noun it modifies.

The pattern is for Italian adjectives of the first class is as follows:

• masculine singular: -o
• feminine singular: -a
• masculine plural: -i
• feminine plural: -e

So for “piccolo” the pattern is:

• masculine singular: piccolo
• feminine singular: piccola
• masculine plural: piccoli
• feminine plural: piccole