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Doubling of Initial Consonants
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)