Everybody agrees that the pronoun ci is, probably, one of the most mysterious word in Italian, and thus, I thought it would be great to discuss in the post, the use of ci when occurring with the forms of the verb avere. 1.Ce l’hai? Ce l’ho! Non ce l’ho! I am sure you might already […]
Misusing or swapping the verbs fermare and smettere is one of the most frequent errors students of Italian as a second language do and I understand why. The confusion is drove by the fact that both verbs, in English, have only one translation: stopping. Instead, Italians have two different verbs to indicate the action of stopping. One verb is […]
Let’s start from già, which has two 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 verb and the past participle Hai già fatto […]
Everybody knows that quello means that and bello means nice , however you might have noticed that, from time to time, quello and bello are in used in a different shape, like bel e quel or begli and quegli How come? Well, let’s start from quello First thing first, you should be able to distinguish when […]
1. The key difference with English In English possessives are never used with articles. Instead, in Italian, they are always accompanied with articles (except for some cases I will touch upon below). The possessive adjectives agree in terms of gender and number with the nouns they are proceeding la mia borsa il mio libro la […]
In this article, I will explain how to use two expressions with the verb fare which are often used in spoken Italian to show approval or disapproval towards something: fare bene and fare male FARE BENE Fare bene expresses approval or satisfaction towards somebody. For example, a friend tells you that he quit his job because could […]
