The patterns

37 patterns. Two languages. One rule at a time.

English, Spanish and Italian share Latin bones. Each pattern below is a single rule that carries across both languages at once — learn it once, read it everywhere.

4 of 37 live so far — more land every week.

Cognates

2 patterns

-tion → -ción → -zione
One ending you already know unlocks hundreds of nouns in both languages at once.
-sion → -sión → -sione
The quieter sibling of -tion — decision, television, passion — bends exactly the same way.

Suffixes

2 patterns

-ty → -dad → -tà
Abstract nouns — quality, city, university — share one Latin spine across all three languages.
-ous → -oso → -oso
Describe anything — famous, curious, generous — and Spanish and Italian agree on the ending.