Many of us know how this story ends. That's why it will be easy to understand. And there are still plenty of verbs to learn in the passato remoto!

We've gotten to the third category of colors, where they behave like positive adjectives. Attenzione! These colors have four different possible endings.

Marika tells us more about suffixes, and this time explains how to form nouns from adjectives. There's homework to do, too!

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In this final video on colors as adjectives, Daniela's students practice using all three types (static, positive and neutral) in sentences. As you'll see, it can be tough putting all the pieces together, but little by little, you'll get it!

There's plenty of new vocabulary in the well-known story of "Sleeping Beauty". And since there are both a king and a queen, and twelve fairies, many verbs are in the third person plural of the passato remoto! Make the most of it!

Just as in English, Italian has a great many compound nouns. Marika explains the different types. A proposito, this time she greets us a new way, saying buondì. It's simply another way of saying buongiorno. Dì is another way of saying giorno (day). Diurno is its relative adjective, meaning "daytime."

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This is the beginning of a very important series of lessons because possessive pronouns or adjectives work a little differently in Italian. You need to add an article before the possessive pronoun. Daniela will explain it all.

Being a fairy tale, there's a happy ending. Maybe you'll understand it even without the subtitles!

There are lots of ways to form compound nouns, and lots of different ways to form their plurals. Marika fills us in.

Daniela continues with the possessive adjective, and gives examples of the masculine and feminine singular. Remember that, unlike English, Italian puts an article before the possessive adjective.

Here's one of the most famous fairy tales of all, "Cinderella." The Italian, "La Cenerentola" comes from the noun la cenere (ash, ashes, cinder). See how much you can understand without the English subtitles!

In fairy tales, good triumphs over evil in the end. This one's no exception.

To form the opposite of a word in Italian, there are different kinds of prefixes. Marika explains how they work.