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Getting What We Want from Volere

Caption 27, Il Commissario Manara - S1EP6 - Reazione a Catena  Play Caption   But it’s not always as easy as just conjugating the verb,...

Odd Weights and Measures

decina is around ten. Venti is twenty precisely, but poche decine is a few times "about ten" (poche is the plural for poco, therefore meaning "a few,"...

When Things Don't Matter

me), non t’importa niente di me (you don’t care about me at all, I’m not important to you), or non m’importa niente (I...

Making the Most of Yabla Italian

out for this reason. Some words in a video don’t make an appearance at all in the vocabulary review. This is because...

Putting in Time with Metterci

took Enzo to get home. Let’s take a look at the differences between how English and Italian...

More Examples of the Impersonale

form of verbs in previous lessons. There's a great example in Marika's video about the entrance to her apartment. Note that...

Modal Verbs in Italian

three modal verbs are also nouns, so, occhio al contesto (keep an eye on the context)!    Let's look at some practical examples. Look for an infinitive verb in the...

Tris di Assaggi (Three Tidbits)

same time, or on separate plates, one after the other.    At the end of concerts, audiences ask for...

Si, Si, and Ci - L'impersonale - Part 3

si), which is what reflexive verbs are all about.  So we've seen that the reflexive form...

Nothing Personal! - L'impersonale - Part 1

Si dice sempre che il cane They always say that a dog è il migliore amico dell'uomo ed...

Where's the Subject? - L'impersonale Part 2

taking singular objects: Si mangia la pasta a pranzo (people eat pasta at lunch). But when the "impersonal" verb refers...

Contradicting and Reconsidering with Anzi

male vivere in Italia, anzi! It's not at all bad living in Italy, on the contrary!...

Getting Adjectives to Behave - Part 2

an e ending on the adjective when you're talking about a feminine noun in the plural.  Quelle donne...

When Is an Adjective Not an Adjective?

of morto, and try to determine whether it's an adjective, a participle, or a noun.  Let the context...

Getting Adjectives to Behave - Part 1

start for understanding noun-adjective agreement.    Further practice: After viewing a Yabla video, check out the Vocabulary Review....

Wild: Selvatico/Selvaggio

13-18, Linea Blu - Sicilia  Play Caption   In a nutshell: When you think about wild beasts, or when the words "savage"...

Those Pesky Possessive Adjectives

Aggettivi Possessivi  Play Caption   There is also another special case: an exception to the exception. When the nouns...

Fagioli e Legumi: Beans and Legumes

animal proteins, which is why Gualtiero talks about it being a popular dish at his parents' trattoria. See this video (in Italian) about...

This Land Is My Land, This Land Is Your Land: Paese and Terra

They sing about their paese (country) and their terra (land), and even about the terra madre (native land). Let's have a look at some of the different connotations of these...

Parole Alterate - Modifying Words to Create New Ones

and prefixes, let's have a quick look at a word used in another of this week's new videos. Massimo Montanari...

Bear Up with Sopportare and Reggere

Will it hold up? Sopportare and reggere are useful words in all kinds of contexts. Have a look at the online dictionary of your choice to...

"Di che cosa si tratta?" (What's it about?)

lesson, is rather similar in meaning to another turn of phrase: trattarsi di (to be about, to be a matter of, to be a case of),...

Cops: Carabinieri, Vigili, or Poliziotti?

police force) on the other hand, works at a local level and is responsible primarily for...

Staying on the Straight and Narrow with Retto and Retta

or diritto (straight, direct). But we’ll save that for another lesson.   In a nutshell: Retto is used as an adjective (changing its ending according to what’s...