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Previously I asked someone and they confirmed that the usage of "un/uno" is aligned with "il/lo", both use the O version before a noun that starts with S + a consonant or Z or PS.
However some told me that there are cases where you use il for a singular noun but gli for its plural form. I have forgot the details.
Are all nouns that use il as their singular article use i as their plural article? If not, is there a word that you would say il something and at the same time gli somethings?
Yes, they're aligned, except for one case that's mentioned by DaG: il dio / gli dei as stated in the book L'italiano for dummies by Antonio Zoppetti:
Tutto chiaro? E allora che "gli dei" fulminino chi dovesse ancora sbagliare! Non vi siete accorti di nulla? Si vede che state andando a orecchio, invece di aver digerito le regole, altrimenti avreste notato subito che il dio al plurale diventa gli dei, non "i dei", ma questa violazione di quanto esposto sino a qui non è che l'unica eccezione che conferma la regola.
One uses lo (l') or gli before a masculine noun if it begins with s + consonant, z-, ps- or gn-. For example:
