how to say to leave in Italian
HOW TO SAT “TO LEAVE” IN ITALIAN Have you ever hesitated when saying in Italian the sentences “I leave home/ I leave work“? If you have ever taken an Italian language course to learn how to speak Italian, there is a good chance, that yes, you had. Tell me why! Because the verb to leave […]
How many Italian words starting with Q do you know?
How many Italian words starting with Q do you know? Probably not so many. This is why I drew a short list of three tricky “Q” words to be familiar with if you want to boost up your Italian vocabulary. Qualsiasi/qualunque First and foremost, qualsiasi and qualunque are indefinite adjectives that have the same meaning, […]
How to use correctly the adverbs già and ancora?
How to use “già” and “ancora” Let’s start from già, which has to different meanings. GIÀ= ALREADY The most common use of già is when is used with the sense of already. In the vast majority of times, già comes together with a passato prossimo, just like in English and is always placed between the auxiliary […]
GIORNO and GIORNATA: how to use them
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN “GIORNO” AND “GIORNATA“ Today I thought about writing about of the most frequent questions I got from students of Italian. “Is there any difference between GIORNO and GIORNATA?” Yes, there is. And it is not a tiny one. Let’s explore the Italian language… GIORNATA Giornata is used when referring to the approximate duration of […]
The Italian impersonal form with ‘SI’
The Italian impersonal form with ‘SI’ The impersonal form is used when the subject is not specified. It corresponds to the English one drinks delicious coffee in Italy or you drink delicious coffee in Italy or they drink delicious coffee in Italy, when they are an unspecified number of people We can say that the impersonal form in Italian is […]
The Italian conditional tense
The Italian conditional tense In Italian the conditional is used both in the present and the past tense. The present conditional is far more used than the past (or compound) conditional. When and how to use the conditional tense in Italian? ITALIAN PRESENT CONDITIONAL to express a possibility, fo example, in hypothetical sentences Cucinerei sano se […]