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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

syllable) means "small change," but when we're talking about someone giving you change, it's a different story. Il resto does mean "the...

Pappa as opposed to Papa and Papà

have teeth yet, so they need purees and the like.    So, a dish made of dried bread that has...

How Do Relative Pronouns Work in Italian

è la spiaggia dei palermitani.    Let's look at an example in which che translates nicely with "that," but can...

Dare: the Gift that Keeps on Giving

Play Caption   Darsela a gambe And to echo a recent lesson, and give another example of a verbo pronominale  (a phrasal verb using particelle or short...

The Dottore Is In

One example of this usanza (use, custom) occurs in a recent episode about Adriano Olivetti.   Io e la mia famiglia...

Making Sense of Comparatives and Superlatives

the comparative and the superlative. Let's take a moment and review the series because, coming from English, we might...

Dotato o Negato? (Gifted or Talentless?)

the Italian comparative adverb più (more) before the adjective negato (not at all gifted). Whew! Talk about something not translating smoothly into English!   Negato is...

"Let Me Know" in Italian

un sogno, at the very end, there is an expression that's used just about every day, especially at the end of a conversation, email, a phone...

When Pensare Doesn't Mean "to Think"

readers has expressed interest in knowing more about a certain kind of verb: the kind that has a...

Absolutely Superlative!

We've talked recently about comparatives of equality, and so it makes sense to talk about yet another kind of comparative. We're not really comparing...

Comparatives of Equality

Giornata  Play Caption   We often find così and come together in a sentence and it can often be translated as "just...

Ci Siamo (We're There)!

Let's look at a few idiomatic expressions people tend to use...

Comodo: Comfortable or Handy?

noun it's describing. There are 4 possibilities: o, a, i, and e. Here are some examples. Questo vestito...

2 Words about Trying: Provare and Provarci

often shortened to a "ch" sound in a contraction. C'ho provato (I tried). Provaci is an informal command: "Give it a try!" The...

How to Talk About Email in Italian

It evolves. In Italian, too, "email" as a word, and as a concept, receives different treatment from...

Meglio or Migliore?

in English.  Sei il/la migliore! You're the best!   Migliore is either an adjective or a noun — never an adverb.   Meglio, on the other...

Two Oddball Words in Odd Contexts

The name looks innocent enough, but scarafone (also scarrafone, scaraffone, scardafone,scordofone) is another word for scarafaggio (cockroach). There's an expression in Italian, and you will see this on the WordReference...

Good News About Comparatives in Italian

corresponds to the English, because in English, not all adjectives have a comparative form. "Arrivederci" [quando vado via] è...

2 Very Different Meanings of the Verb Investire

Part 2  Play Caption But there is another meaning of investire that is less easy to guess at: "to hit" (as in getting hit by...

Three Ways to Crush It: pestare, schiacciare, frantumare

di oliva - Il frantoio  Play Caption Anna and Marika use all three of these verbs in their videos...

Asking Questions in Italian part 1

learning English because in Italian, to ask a question, all you have to do is change your...

Becoming Familiar with the Passato Remoto

you're not sure which tense you are looking at, click on the word, even when you are in theprinter-friendly version, and a dictionary will pop up to help you....

Dante and Dante

love.   Galeotto can describe a song, a kiss, a dance, some poetry, an action, and in the case of our chef, Dante,...