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Commenting on appearances with sembrare and vedere

per questo posto e mi sembri molto a tuo agio. You are dressed perfectly for this place, and you seem very at ease to me....

Getting along or not in Italian

pure un po' antipatico. He is stern and also a bit unfriendly. Caption 41, Provaci ancora prof!...

To exist or not to exist

the following example, a mechanic is talking about the Bianchina, a car from the sixties with no bells and whistles. It could easily be translated by...

The passive voice using andare

In a previous lesson, we talked about forming the passive voice with the verb...

The passive voice in Italian with venire

the wall: gli attrezzi sono appesi alle pareti (the tools are hanging on the walls and appesi answers the question "where"), but with venire, we...

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

Then I began working in the office and I handle a little bit of everything... a position of...

Apulia's unique architecture

But a few weeks later, we transcribed and translated a documentary about architecture and lo and behold, one segment discussed...

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

subscriber noticed that things didn't match up and wrote a comment. After considering "well", we decided that although "therefore"...

La fiducia (trust) and fidarsi (to trust)

you" or "I trust in God."    Here's an example of a question using a compound past tense: Ti...

Votare and il voto are more than just cognates

the walls of many old Italian churches and are called ex-voti from the Latin phrase "ex-voto...

When two words become one: univerbazione

asks Detective Lojacono whether there is news about the case. Lojacono answers first with a no, and then corrects himself using oddio. He's neither...

Going deeper with dietro (behind)

in the Latin "de retro." It's both an adverb and a preposition but it can also be a...

Cecina and cecina

egg, ham, tuna fish, mushrooms and mozzarella, and a white pizza with dried beef, arugula and...

Che c'entra? — What does that have to do with it?

Vita da cani - Part 13  Play Caption   And here is a question in the first person singular followed...

Lattina or Scatola?

scatola to mean "canned," in other words, "in a can." We're talking about how these goods are packaged, not where they are at the...

Amaro: the bitter and the sweet

different types), adding sugar at some point, and letting it age for about a month. It's often thought of as being...

Correre (to run) and related words

of people ride bikes, but when you are part of a racing team, even an amateur racing team, you are un corridore or, if...

Wheels of all kinds in Italian

Play Caption     In this next example, we are talking about a little shopping cart to pull along. Its...

3 ways to use the verb prescindere:

with the preposition a just before it and da just after it: a prescindere da... and we will look at...

Uno schiaffo: What's that?

of thousands of videos on Yabla, there are quite a few with schiaffo and none with schiaffeggiare.    We turn to the...