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Corso di italiano con Daniela - Aggettivi indefiniti - Part 1 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Beginner Beginner

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Daniela introduces the topic of indefinite adjectives and starts with quantitative adjectives (think: some, several, etc.). In Italian, not only do we need to think about singular and plural, but also masculine and feminine, just as with other adjectives, so put on your seat belts!

Marika spiega - Come - Part 1 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Beginner Beginner

Italy

Come is an important question word that means "how," but it also fulfills plenty of other roles. Marika spells out the ways...

Corso di italiano con Daniela - Aggettivi e pronomi dimostrativi - Part 3 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Beginner Beginner

Italy

To finish up about demonstrative adjectives and pronouns, Daniela gives us some more examples and a summary.

Corso di italiano con Daniela - Aggettivi e pronomi dimostrativi - Part 2 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Beginner Beginner

Italy

Demonstrative adjectives can also be used as demonstrative pronouns. Daniela explains how that works, and also discusses how to use an apostrophe when the noun following the demonstrative adjective starts with a vowel.

Corso di italiano con Daniela - Aggettivi e pronomi dimostrativi - Part 1 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Beginner Beginner

Italy

Daniela explains how to use the demonstrative adjectives questo and quello [this and that]. She also tells us about a third demonstrative adjective that, these days, is used only in Tuscany: codesto.

Corso di italiano con Daniela - Pronomi combinati - Part 7 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Beginner Beginner

Italy

In this last segment, Daniela focuses on when the past participle of a verb in the present perfect has to agree (in number and gender) with the direct object pronoun when using compound pronouns. It's a bit tricky.

Corso di italiano con Daniela - Pronomi combinati - Part 6 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Beginner Beginner

Italy

Daniela focuses on the partitive ne when joined to combined pronouns in the third person singular, masculine or feminine. In this case, the indirect pronoun aspect stays the same in both the masculine and feminine, singular and plural.

Corso di italiano con Daniela - Pronomi combinati - Part 5 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Beginner Beginner

Italy

Daniela sums up about compound pronouns and explains what a partitive pronoun is. An example of a partitive pronoun is the particle ne (of it, of them).

Corso di italiano con Daniela - Pronomi combinati - Part 4 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Beginner Beginner

Italy

There are two ways to position the combined pronoun in relation to the verb in some cases, and Daniela shows us how it's done. She gives examples of this with the infinitive, the imperative and the gerund.

Marika spiega - Saluti verbali e a gesti View Series

Difficulty: difficulty - Beginner Beginner

Italy

Greeting people is the first thing we do when we meet up with someone, so it's important to know how to do it right, especially when you don't know the person. Marika shows us how.

Corso di italiano con Daniela - Pronomi combinati - Part 3 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Beginner Beginner

Italy

Daniela shows us more examples of combining direct and indirect object pronouns, and goes on to give us some examples in the subjunctive and conditional moods, which work the same way.

Corso di italiano con Daniela - Pronomi combinati - Part 2 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Beginner Beginner

Italy

Daniela shares a table of compound pronouns and their position in a sentence when they have to do with verbs in the indicative, subjunctive and conditional.

Corso di italiano con Daniela - Pronomi combinati - Part 1 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Beginner Beginner

Italy

Daniela lays out the basics of direct and indirect object pronouns combined together. The indirect object undergoes a transformation when together with a direct pronoun.

Marika commenta -La Ladra - Espressioni idiomatiche - Part 4 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Beginner Beginner

Italy

With examples from La Ladra, Marika explains some common but hard-to-translate, colloquial Italian expressions: pizzicare qualcuno, fare le corna and essere nei pasticci.

Marika spiega - Biancheria View Series

Difficulty: difficulty - Beginner Beginner

Italy

The noun biancheria (linens) comes from bianco, the Italian word for "white." Marika tells us why that is, and takes us around the house to look at the different kinds we use.

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