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School and Workplace Vocabulary - Part 1 Compito and Interrogare

certain amount of sense. Two other verbs, compiere and competere sound similar and are also relevant. We'll look at these in an upcoming lesson.   In Europe, there is a...

Anche se and Persino in Context

too many instances of one particular consonant all together. A good example is: tra fratelli  (between or among brothers)....

Capito?

S1EP1 - Un delitto perfetto  Play Caption   But capito is a great and user-friendly alternative.   When listening to someone tell...

Il Fine and La Fine

end of the midday meal), but fine pranzo, for all intents and purposes, is a compound word (or concept) whereas alla fine del pranzo uses prepositions...

La vita quotidiana (daily life)

not unusual for a cycle to take an hour and a half.   La raccolta differenziata (recycling): We say “recycling” but actually,...

Custodire and Its Relatives

prisoner is also known as un detenuto. “Detention” at school, after all, is a form of punishment, and “imprisons” the student after school hours.   So,...

Are Accents Important?

primarily to accents on “e.” On “o,” “ a,” “i,” and “u,”  the accent is almost always “grave,”...

The Little Words: Particles ne and ci in Context

some practice. Let’s have a quick look at a few examples in this week’s episode of...

Future and Conditional in the First Person Plural

have a single “m” in the future, and a double “m” in the conditional. So, aside...

Education and Educazione: Friends or Not?

words. It’s often truncated to mal. Male is both a noun and an adverb. Technically the adjective form is malo, as...

When O's Become U's - Welcome to Sicily

we call it a dialect, it’s actually a language all its own. The Italian State was born...

The Mystery of the Hidden Pronouns

form a sentence, we need a subject and a verb. For the moment, let’s stick to...

Stare: Another Way of Being

feel, how you look, what you’re doing at the moment, and what you are about to do. You can use stare for all these...

If at First You Don't Succeed: riuscire

several verbs in this context but let’s take a closer look at the verb riuscire because, although commonly used in Italian,...

Colloquial Speech

colloquially: “no nothing,” or, in correct English: “nothing at all.”   E, in due anni, zero litigate. And in two years, no fights. -Niente di...

Word Order Options with Modal Verbs and Object Pronouns

infinitive, which loses its final e.  Let's look at an example.   Here, the object pronoun comes just...

Sapere sapere sapere

late,” or we don’t use any preposition at all, as in “I know I am late.”...

The Verb Ricordare (to Remember) in Context

in that there is no direct object at all. She’s just saying, “You don’t remember, do...

Remembering and Forgetting with Ricordare and Dimenticare

video.   In the following example, ricordare is used reflexively, and is followed by a noun, not a verb.   Daniela, tu per...

Ci: There's Always More to Say About It!

in this sense, and includes the preposition and the object of the preposition. So we’re talking about an indirect pronoun. She uses some examples that...

Cercare, Tentare and Provare: to Try

evidence).   e quindi tutte le prove sono a carico di Ninetta. and so all the proof is against Ninetta. Caption 63,...

The Ci in C'è

literally (what is there?) does not work at all!   Lastly, let’s not forget the popular song...

Conjugated Verbs + Infinitives Part 1

in the infinitive in different ways. Sometimes a preposition (to, at, of) is needed and sometimes not. Let's talk about the cases...

More on Mettere (to Put)

Marika explains all about the verb mettere (to put) in this video lesson. As...