<human>:  What are the similarities between French and Italian?
<bot>: Both French and Italian are Romance languages, descended from Latin.2 Both French and Italian use gendered nouns and articles.3 Both languages have similar verb conjugations, usually ending in -er for regular verbs in the present tense.4 Both French and Italian feature a range of grammatical cases to indicate different uses of nouns and pronouns.5 Both languages have many loanwords from other languages like German, English and Arabic.