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Strappare: To Tear, To Rip

fare uno strappo alle regole, means "to break a rule," "to make an exception."    Another expression with the same noun — strappo — is dare...

Animali and Animalisti

can be a great way to start a conversation with someone as you travel around Italy on your next trip. Let's look...

Ways to Say "Free" in Italian

rabbia  Play Caption   Omaggio can be used as an adjective (that doesn't change with gender and...

Let's Look at the Italian Adjective Precario

same as "precarious" in other situations, such as walking a tightrope. While we are on the subject of precariousness, there is...

What Are Virgolette? How to Use Punctuation Terms in Speech

alla tradizione, tra virgolette. Versace was created as a, quote unquote, return to tradition. Caption 13,...

How Adjectives Work in Italian Part 2

a great many nouns that are predictable and as a result, their adjectives are predictable, too.   Nouns and adjectives go together...

Emozionato or Nervoso? What's the Difference? 

nervoso, is more about being irritable, in a bad mood. When you are nervous about doing something new, difficult, exciting, the Italian...

How Adjectives Work in Italian Part 1

it does. An adjective describes or modifies a noun, as opposed to an adverb, which describes or modifies a verb, an...

Adverbs Formed from Adjectives: Some Easy Tricks

those that answer the question, come (how). In fact, there are a good number of adverbs that can be...

Adverbs Formed from Adjectives: Answers

Here are the adverbs easily formed from adjectives.  probabile (probable)...

Ways to Talk about Death in Italian

she has died," or it can be an adjective, as in "she is dead." More about that here.   One more way to say...

How to Get Mad in Italian

English translation, but avercela can also have a milder connotation, as in the example above, "to be mad...

Working Things Out with Sistemare

tutto il territorio. he managed to fill a good seven cisterns that are scattered around the whole area. Captions 36-37, In giro...

5 Different Ways to Use the Word Accordo (Agreement)

it, it means “in agreement”. If we are "in agreement" — or as we usually say in English, “we agree”...

Everyday Negatives

4  Play Caption   And if you need an object pronoun instead of a noun, don't forget to change mi (to...

Quadro: so many meanings — what's their connection?

can mean "a painting," so when talking about art, it's wise to distinguish. Paintings are usually on a canvas, and the canvas is usually four-sided...

Finding No Fault with Grinza and Piega

can help us remember them. Let's talk about wrinkles. Somebody has a plan, or an explanation for something. How do we say that...

Lo Shopping: Useful vocabulary for shopping in Italy

or fare la spesa to buy groceries for a dinner you are planning, it’s handy to have some words to...

Pappa as opposed to Papa and Papà

Good! It smells good, huh! Yes, traditions are traditions! Yeah! -There's little to do about it! -Food! Captions 44-46, Un medico in...

How Do Relative Pronouns Work in Italian

us to combine two shorter sentences that are related to each other into a longer one made up of two clauses....

Dare: the Gift that Keeps on Giving

plenty of nuances.   Dai is often used as a filler, as part of an innocuous and fairly positive comment, and can...

The Dottore Is In

more here about higher learning in Italy.   As well as being an industrialist, Adriano Olivetti designed machinery, so it...

Making Sense of Comparatives and Superlatives

lessons together in a different way, in a different order. As we have seen, the comparative and superlative...

Dotato o Negato? (Gifted or Talentless?)

isn't to say that we can't also talk about having or not having talent, as, for example, in a recent segment of Adriano Olivetti's story: Adriano, tu...