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Wheels of all kinds in Italian

Part 11  Play Caption   Interestingly, when talking about a spare tire, we use la ruota, the...

3 ways to use the verb prescindere:

a just before it and da just after it: a prescindere da... and we will look at examples of this below. But it might...

Uno schiaffo: What's that?

face, with one's open hand.   Let's look at a few examples from Yabla videos.    Ci voleva...

Different Italian translations of "that"

are pointing something out, as in "this" and "that." It can be an adjective or a pronoun. E quindi cade una quantità d'acqua...

The underlying meaning of cioè:

in fact, they told me, "We want a very contrasted black and white," both to give strength, basically, to...

Expression: Chi dorme non piglia pesci

catches the worm. So in Italian, it's a negative statement and in English, it's a positive statement.    "Chi...

An elegant alternative to raramente (rarely)

and "rarely" in English.    But there is another way to say this. Let's look at a couple of passages from a recent segment...

Non vuol dire (that doesn't mean anything)

Water and vinegar" as if to say, "And that's all you need to know." But spy #2...

La Ciociaria: What is it?

Paolo Pasolini's poem: 10 Giugno from 1962, and in the documentary about him. La Ciociaria is not the name of...

All roads lead to Rome

happens that Anna and Marika had lunch at that very restaurant and made a video for Yabla to prove it. They...

S prefix: overview

it once did.    While the addition of an S at the beginning of the word often negates...

Sconvolgere: another "S" prefix!

But translating the verb into English is a different story, and so one wonders if there isn't some...

L'erbaccia: Che cos'è?

a little aside, if we then look at a recent episode of the series JAMS, there...

Ways to begin in Italian

this stuff to Cascina, then come back and we'll load all the rest. Captions 21-22, Fino a qui tutto bene Film - Part 17  Play...

Adverbs of time with multiple meanings

in casa? Sì, stavamo guardando la televisione. And you two last night were at home? Yes, we were watching television. Captions...

Expression: Essere su di giri

this next example, Manrico wants to seduce a woman, and thinks of "getting her going" with a...

An additional meaning for capace

po' di pasta fresca tu? Sei capace? And... but do you know how to make a little fresh pasta? Are you capable? Caption...

The expression Che ne so?

Let's talk about a little expression that is useful in various...

Putting things behind us with croce (cross) and pietra (stone)

and cemeteries. The meaning is almost identical, at least nowadays. Una pietra is "a stone," and here it refers to a tombstone or...

What do Renaissance Italian coins have to do with us?

perplexed. It doesn't appear to be in a dictionary, and even if it is, it doesn't make...

Getting over things, with superare, uscire, and reagire

word in Italian often results in being at a loss for words. That's why it's so...

Una rosa, due rose

those colors that doesn't change in number and gender when used as an adjective, as opposed to nero (black), bianco...

What's accoglienza?

If you live in a place and hear a certain word enough times, you...

Le Cinque Terre

Cinque Terre. This means "the five villages" and if you look at a map, you can see they are positioned...