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Everything else on this site is organized by topic, which is great once you know your way around but not much help on your first visit. This page suggests one order to read things in — follow it top to bottom, or jump around from the topic menu whenever you want.

  1. Foundations
    1. 1 Alphabet The 36 letters and how each one sounds.
  2. Nouns
    1. 2 Nouns: the basics How an Albanian noun is put together.
    2. 3 Cases The five cases nouns inflect for.
    3. 4 Definiteness The definite and indefinite endings a noun can take.
    4. 5 Plural formation How a singular noun becomes plural.
  3. Pronouns
    1. 6 Personal pronouns I, you, he/she… across every case.
    2. 7 Possessives My, your, his, her… across every case.
    3. 8 Demonstratives This and that, near or far.
    4. 9 Interrogatives Who and which, and how each one inflects.
  4. Adjectives
    1. 10 Adjectives: the basics The two adjective classes.
    2. 11 The linking article How an adjective attaches to the noun it describes.
  5. Numbers
    1. 12 Numbers: the basics Cardinal numbers from zero up, and how they combine.
    2. 13 Ordinal numbers First, second, third… built from the cardinals.

One more thing worth knowing early: this site teaches Standard Albanian, which is Tosk-based. If you ever run into a form that looks different from what's here, it may be the Gheg dialect — not a mistake.

Tools to come back to

These aren't reading material — they're lookup tools, worth bookmarking once you've met the grammar above.

Noun declensions Look up the full declension of any noun already catalogued. Adjective declensions Look up the full declension of any adjective already catalogued. Number composer Build any number and see how it's said.
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