by Serena | Feb 13, 2024 | beginners, Italian grammar
Verbs ending in -ire are the third and smallest group of Italian verbs, but they include some you’ll use every single day: dormire, sentire, partire, capire, finire, preferire. The only tricky part is that they come in two “flavors”. Once you can...
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 | Jan 16, 2024 | Italian grammar
What’s the Italian present progressive? The present progressive tense in Italian is used to describe actions occurring at the moment of speaking. For instance, “sto andando a lavoro” translates to “I am going to work” and indicates the...
by Serena | Dec 24, 2023 | Italian grammar, advanced, intermediate
Ci and ne are two tiny words (called particelle in Italian) that native speakers use all the time. They replace something already mentioned, so we don’t have to repeat it. They make your Italian shorter, more fluid and much more natural. They can look scary at...
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...
