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Andarsene: yet another important pronominal verb

situation" with the particle ne. In this context, ne is a pronoun representing an indirect object with its preposition, all in one!  Se uno sta bene in...

Basics: At the Airport

say or understand when arriving in Italy after a flight from a different country. In most...

Using the verb prevedere

Let's look at a word that in one sense is not...

3 expressions with tanto

put together with other words to form an expression, and sometimes there's a preposition to make it mean something particular....

Putting quadro, inquadrare, and inquadratura into focus

A frame is often square or rectangular, and in fact, quadro is another word for square. In a camera, we see a square (or frame)...

Niente (nothing, no, not): How to use it

not bad) or niente male (not bad at all), which is a bit stronger towards the positive end of...

When bello doesn't mean beautiful

carino can also mean "nice" when talking about a person or an action carried out by a person, so...

How to use the verb muovere (to move)

Think of it as "translocation!" or "translocate," a cross between "transfer" and "relocate." ...

3 faces of realtà

won't find the preposition in before it, and we might likely see an indefinite article or a plural article or adjective as in our...

Being fixated in Italian

example below, Marika and Anna are talking about the Italian tradition of having bread at a meal when there is already a wheat-based...

Making sense of the passato prossimo tense

di [sic: della] classe e siamo andati a Malta. And then, after graduation, we decided to leave on our...

Questo and Quello: How do they work?

are choosing something in a shop or at a bancarella at the market, instead of saying,...

4 ways to say, "I don't think so" in Italian

don't think so, I don't think so at all).   So with parere and sembrare, we often use the indirect personal...

4 ways to say "everywhere" in Italian

comes from 3 words: the preposition da (from, at, by);  the preposition per (for); and tutto (everything, all), an adjective, noun, or pronoun, depending on the...

Caring with the verb tenere

moment for talking about actual love, tenere is a good verb to use. You care about someone and you don't want to lose them.    Io...

Appresso vs presso

the following example, Lara's father is talking about an ancient tomb he has been studying for...

Anticipare and Anticipo

to say "in advance." Here anticipo is a noun, and it has an adjective in front of it.  Il problema...

Scaffolding in Italian

da un'impalcatura del cantiere. He fell from a scaffold at the construction site. Caption 9, La Ladra...

Aria fritta (fried air)

be able to keep. Hype, but no substance. All talk and no action. You obviously can't fry air,...

"I can't wait" in Italian: non vedo l'ora!

Part 2  Play Caption   These sentences are all about you, in other words, something you are...

Using nouns as adjectives in Italian. How does it work?

Sometimes the noun-as-adjective merges with the noun and becomes a compound word and sometimes not: laundry room, dishwasher,...

Forza vs Sforzo: What's the difference?

With sforzo, we have an S at the beginning of a word once again, and we might recognize the word without the...

The many-faceted noun il discorso

because it can mean so many things. At a basic level, we can detect the cognate:...

Seguire, proseguire, and inseguire

per il proseguo... ...this has become a, a reality and surely, uh, also for the aftermath... Caption...