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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 la casa, and when we use it as an adjective, which has to agree with the...

Getting Adjectives to Behave - Part 1

determined by looking at the ending of a noun, as Daniela explains in this video lesson.   Even if...

Wild: Selvatico/Selvaggio

numerose pinete, From cypress to pine, there are a number of pinewoods, agli alberi di fico...

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

vegetarian brodo (broth) for the kind of soups that are particularly popular in Tuscany.   There's talk, in a video about famous Italian chef Gualtiero Marchesi, about the...

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

boot of Italy, called Basilicata, also known as Lucania. They sing about their paese (country) and their terra (land), and even about the terra madre (native...

Parole Alterate - Modifying Words to Create New Ones

spadellare, ma come... Cooking, understood not simply as an act of working at the stove, but as......

Bear Up with Sopportare and Reggere

Caption 34, Il Commissario Manara - S1EP6 - Reazione a Catena  Play Caption     Another way to say this would be: E’ insopportabile!...

"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?

Manara takes place in that environment (in fact, there's a new segment this week!).    Luca and Lara are usually in borghese (plainclothes), and wear their uniforms only on...

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...

Chiuso per Ferie: The Slowest Week of the Year

want to be at the seaside. In a video about the culinary arts, an art critic mentions gli anni di piombo (the years...

Getting to the Point with Dunque and Nocciolo

the heart of this lesson: dunque is also used as a noun in the expressions venire al dunque (to come...

Verbs of Uncertainty and the Subjunctive

off” the subjunctive. This means that they are conjugated normally in the indicative, but if they precede a conjunction like che (that), then the subjunctive comes into...

Understanding Addosso

this will help in assimilating addosso and di dosso (off of). As a noun, dosso by itself is used when talking about geological formations (bumps or hills), or in la...

The Underlying Meaning of "Allora"

niente. Well, I’ll tell you a bit about my past. As a girl I wore a skirt to go...

Vivere: Living the Experience

be incorrect! And now, you've discovered still another way to say “personally.”   In a nutshell: There are two important (related) meanings of vivere: vivere (to live)...

Getting Someone’s Attention in Italian: Ascoltare and Sentire

that in polite speech, the imperative has an “a” at the end of senta, but an “i”...

Nel Blu Dipinto di Blu

to be up there   Learning suggestion: Take a look around at all the blue items you can...

Giardino vs Orto

Il contadino  Play Caption   In a Yabla video about composting as a way to recycle, three closely related words...

Hypothesis Versus Reality - The Subjunctive and the Conditional

tense of “to know.” If you think about it, though, it’s an “unreal” past tense. We’re talking hypothetically (unless...

Everything Changes

Italian ends with verità. It's is preceded by an article, helping us to see that it's a noun. Here's part of the song:   Di...

What to Say While You're Thinking of What to Say

English, and goes from meaning "so-so," (such as in response to being asked about a film or a book) to an expression...