by Serena | Feb 7, 2024 | Italian grammar, beginners
Present Tense of ‘scrivere’ (regular verb) IoscrivoI write or I’m writing TuscriviYou write you’re writingLui/LeiscriveHe/she writes or he/she is writingNoiscriviamoWe write or we are writingVoiscriveteYou all write or you’re all...
by Serena | Feb 5, 2024 | Italian grammar, beginners
In Italian, ‘potere’ is more commonly used to express possibility or permission, but NOT skill or ability. To express the skill or ability to do something, the verb ‘sapere’ is used, which means ‘to know how to.’ For example,...
by Serena | Dec 19, 2023 | intermediate, beginners, Italian grammar
Gli or le? Lo or gli? Indirect object pronouns are one of the topics my students find most confusing, mostly because English uses “to him”, “to her” or nothing at all, while Italian uses a short word placed before the verb. The good news: there...
by Serena | Dec 18, 2023 | Italian grammar, beginners
1. Come The most frequent translation of ‘how’ in Italian, is come. ‘Come’ is used as an interrogative word in many common Italian questions, such as: Come stai?how are you?Come ti chiami?what is your name?Come ti senti?how do you...
by Serena | Dec 17, 2023 | Italian grammar, beginners
In Italian, asking how long someone has been doing something works very differently from English. English uses: How long have you been…? I’ve been doing… Italian does not use have been in these cases or the past tense. Instead, Italian uses the present...
by Serena | Dec 12, 2023 | Italian grammar, beginners
Nouns ending in ‘-o’ or ‘-a’ In Italian language, nouns, pronouns, and adjectives can be assigned one of two grammatical genders: masculine or feminine. The gender of a word is arbitrary and does not always have a logical connection to...
