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50 good-to-know Italian adjectives part 1 — positives

adjective can allow you to communicate something. And that's what language is all about: communication. So if nothing else, just say...

Business vocabulary and expressions part 3

Previously, we looked at ways to talk about going to work and different positions at the workplace. In Part 3, we will...

1 important way to translate the verb "to get" in Italian

using the future tense of venire. Marika and Anna are about to take us to un panificio (a bakery). Vi verrà fame eh! You're going...

Getting busy with darsi da fare

is darsi da fare. We can detect a reflexive ending on the verb dare (to...

Che as "what"

and ears open for che, che cosa, and cosa, all meaning "what!" ...

Business Vocabulary and Expressions Part 2

how to "go to work" in Italian and about different types of employees.   To indicate the...

Piazza, piazzare, and spiazzare

cambiano  Play Caption   But when we add an S to the beginning as a sort of prefix, the meaning changes. Something...

Business Vocabulary and Expresssions Part 1

an office situation, on the other hand, an employee working at a desk or a counter is usually indicated...

Why is mi piace so hard to figure out?

can't take a direct object. It takes an indirect object and needs a preposition (usually a [to])! So translating directly,...

Scucire and Cucire

When there was a lot of poverty and a coat was frayed, it wasn't thrown away....

Sotto and Its Common Uses

is it a preposition, but it's also an adverb and sometimes a noun. It can combine with other words...

Dividere and Condividere

up any doubts you might have had about the verbs dividere and condividere. Let us know at [email protected] ...

Quiz on Essere or Stare ?

For this lesson, it's a good idea to have an idea about the difference between essere and stare, keeping...

Meet and Greet

noun, meaning "pleasure." So, you don't need an article, you don't need a verb. You just need the one word, piacere...

The noun il passo — What does it mean?

that's not the whole story on passo.   Al passo means "at a walk" when we're talking about the gait of a horse or other...

Expression: Era ora!

might also say, "High time."    Era ora is a great expression and easy to use. There is always an imaginary exclamation point after it. When someone...

Qualifying Adverbs: troppo, tanto

but look around to see whether there is an adjective or a noun after it.   C'è troppo aglio. There's too much...

When 2 Doesn't Mean 2

passi indicates a short distance: a hop, skip, and a jump, for example.   È qua, siete fortunato,...

Qualifying Adverbs: molto, poco, abbastanza, piuttosto

Let's talk about adverbs we can use to add a qualifier to an adjective. We can say someone is gentile (nice)....

When the Letter X Seems to Be Missing in an Italian Word

taxes)   io non sono per niente brava a compilare I'm not at all good at filling out il modulo per...

When the Letter N Seems to Be Missing in an Italian Word

Play Caption   Something to look forward to and think about: As soon as we start thinking of...

Tutto fumo, niente arrosto

to express this in English, for example: All talk and no action. All talk and no walk....

More expressions with caso

actually means is something like "if appropriate," "if at all," or "if anything." "in the event that."...

Caso means "case," but countless other things as well

Caso seems like an easy cognate, and it is, indeed, especially when we say...