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Italian Counterfactuals Without Se: Venisse Domani (C1)
🔍 In short. Italian normally builds counterfactual sentences with se + subjunctive: se avessi saputo, sarei venuto (“if I had known, I would have …
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Italian Raddoppiamento: A Casa Becomes Akkasa (B2)
🔍 In short. Listen closely to an Italian saying vado a casa. You don’t hear “a casa” with a clean break. You hear “akkkasa”, …
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Italian La Idioms: Smetterla, Farcela, Cavarsela (B1)
🔍 In short. Italian has a family of idiomatic verbs that all carry a small, apparently meaningless feminine pronoun la stuck to the end: …
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Italian Né Né: How to Say ‘Neither Nor’ (A2)
🔍 In short. English uses “neither…nor” to coordinate two negative items. Italian né né does the same job: né mangia né beve means “he …
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Italian Stesso: Emphatic, Reflexive, Same, Anyway (B2)
🔍 In short. The Italian word stesso wears five hats. Italian stesso is an emphatic adjective (“the very”, “itself”), as in l’albero stesso or …
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Italian Tuttavia, Nondimeno, Ciononostante: Adversatives (C1)
🔍 In short. Italian has a family of formal adversative connectives that climb the register ladder past everyday però and ma. Italian tuttavia means …
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Italian Can, Could, Might: Potere Across Tenses (B1)
🔍 In short. English splits “can”, “could”, “may”, “might” across four separate words, then layers “can have”, “could have”, “may have”, “might have” on …
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Italian Motion Prepositions: A, Da, Verso, In, Fino A (A1)
🔍 In short. English uses two little words for movement: “to” and “towards”. Italian uses a handful instead, and each one picks a different …
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