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Frutto or frutta? What's the difference?

to the fruit in question, for example, an apple or a peach, or we talk about "a piece of fruit."   Things are a...

What's the difference between tra and fra?

vice versa.    Our first example is from a video about prepositions, including tra and fra.   Compagnia: "Mi...

Carrying Meanings: How Portare Gave Us Portata and Portato

In this lesson, we're going to talk about an adjective and a noun stemming from the common verb portare. Portare comes...

Giungere, arrivare: what's the difference?

do with getting from one place to another, at least in their simple, literal meaning. Arrivare...

Tanto/quanto: the key to balanced comparisons

say about this useful word.  It's not all about asking how much something costs at the market. We use quanto in comparisons,...

E questo è quanto

kinds of literature, on, on philosophy, of all kinds, about, about history, but we are very specialized...

From Pamphlets to Paperbacks: Italian Words for the Printed Page

these golden albums back together, three, four at a time, it would become a, uh... a,...

Commenting on appearances with sembrare and vedere

We often want to comment on another person, animal, or object regarding their appearance...

Getting along or not in Italian

speakers understand. We can use simpatico as an adjective to describe a person:   Nick è uno simpatico, un po'...

To exist or not to exist

Part 9  Play Caption   See this lesson all about the ci in c'è!   Finally, let's mention an expression with esistere. It's very easy and...

The passive voice using andare

grammar experts).    In this lesson, we'll talk about another verb used to form the passive. This...

The passive voice in Italian with venire

gioielli da Christie's. London. It was sold at a jewelry auction at Christie's. Caption 2, La...

An important false friend to know: fare impressione

someone what impression they have or had about something, we are back to a true cognate, even if we use the...

Immaginare vs supporre part 2

be interchangeable with immaginare, because we're talking about a supposition based on something concrete. Questo perché...

The fine line between story and history

sono lasciati dopo pochi mesi. (They had an affair, but they broke it off after a few months.)   When it's more of a...

Immaginare vs. Supporre Part 1

yourself] my surprise when I discovered that after all these years you had become... A cop? -No! Beautiful! Captions 6-9, Il Commissario Manara...

Apulia's unique architecture

have covered elsewhere, but this time, it’s about a word we saw for the first time in an episode of Imma Tataranni. The noun was lamione,...

Are you confused about confondere?

In a previous lesson, we talked about votare, a verb that has an additional meaning we rarely think of. Another...

Dunque: using it informally

to know, but the translation is not always clear-cut or obvious.    If you are about to make a list or explain something, dunque works great...

La fiducia (trust) and fidarsi (to trust)

Before discussing how fidarsi works, let's look at a passage from a recent video on Yabla...

Votare and il voto are more than just cognates

into these words.    In the first segment of a documentary about comic books, there's a curious example of votare...

When two words become one: univerbazione

and repeating, you don't need to worry about this at all. You might notice a difference in pronunciation among the various regions...

Going deeper with dietro (behind)

lesson, we'd like to take a look at a relatively modern noun containing the word dietro:...

Cecina and cecina

There is a city in southern Tuscany, in the narrow...