Sometime accents are used in Albanian dictionaries to indicate the stressed syllable. These accents are only pronunciation hints and should not be used in written Albanian.

In Albanian, the indefinite articles a and some are translated as një and disa respectively. However, there is no definite article. To create the definite form of a noun, the ending of the noun is modified.

In the vocabulary, nouns are listed in the definite and indefinite forms of both the singular and plural. The stem of the noun is the word up to the slash character or to the end of the word if there is no slash. All nouns are listed with their endings in the order: indefinite singular, definite singular, indefinite plural, and definite plural. For example
turist/e, -ja, -e, -et lists the four forms of female tourist:
një turiste = a female tourist,
turistja = the female tourist,
disa turiste = some female tourists,
turistet = the female turists.

For each noun where the gender is not obvious, the gender is listed with the noun as well. The gender will become important when we learn about adjectives. There are rules for deriving these forms of the noun which will be covered in later lessons. However, the rules are complicated and have many exceptions. Often it is simpler to memorize the four forms as you memorize each noun.

The verb jam is an irregular verb. It's conjugations should be memorized. The personal pronouns are be used in front of the verb, however, when the subject of the verb is clear, they are often dropped.

To negate a sentance in Albanian, add a nuk or s' before the verb. For example: Unë nuk jam amerikan.