Italian for beginners: “C’è” – “Ci sono”- PODCAST

Theverbessereisusedintheexpressionsc’èandcisono(thereis-thereare) followedbya singularorpluralnoun.Podcast.

C’èandcisono correspondtotheEnglishthereisandthereare. Asimplepostforbeginners

 

 

There’snoperfectmatchbetweenEnglishandItalian.Sometimesessereandesserci(tobeandtobethere)areinterchangeable.

Thenegativeformsare nonc’èand noncisono.


Afewnotes.Money(soldi)initalianisplural,people(gente)inItalianissingular,so”thereis”and”thereare”areobviouslyinverted.Theorderofthewordsinthesentencedoesn’tchangeinquestions.InItalian,whenyoudon’tneedinterrogativeadverbs(come,dove,quando,perchéetc…)we justaddaquestionmark.Soicanask:

  • Mariononc’è?
  • Nonc’ètempo?
Finally, fromalogicalpointofview,therearesomeverycommonItaliansentences(doublenegatives)thatinEnglishdon’tmakesense,butarecorrectinItalian.Forexample:

  • Nonc’ènessuno -lit.Thereisn’tnobody
  • Nonc’èniente-lit.Thereisn’tnothing
ThereareplentyoforedoublenegativesinItalian(withmai,nessuno,niente).Learn themastheyare.

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Riccardo
Milanese, graduated in Italian literature a long time ago, I began teaching Italian online in Japan back in 2003. I usually spend winter in Tokyo and go back to Italy when the cherry blossoms shed their petals. I do not use social media.

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