Italian per da infinitive: B1 guide to per for purpose (esco per comprare il pane), da for noun-use (qualcosa da bere, una storia da raccontare), tanto da consequence, troppo per. Ravenna mosaic workshop dialogue.
Italian ne or possessive: B2 guide to when ammirarne l’intelligenza replaces ammirare la sua intelligenza, the reflexive block, and a Buonconsiglio dialogue.
Italian idiomatic ci at A1: c’è, ci sono, ci vuole, ci vogliono, ci ho and ce l’ho explained with a Verona market dialogue and quiz.
🔍 In short. Italian dates follow one simple pattern: definite article il + the day as a cardinal number + the month + the year. So January 14th is il 14 gennaio, May 27th is il 27 maggio, and ‘I was born on March 23, 1990’ is sono nato il 23 marzo 1990. There is only one exception: the first day of the month uses the ordinal primo instead of uno, so January 1st is il primo gennaio, never ‘l’uno gennaio’. The year is read as one long word: 2026 is duemilaventisei. To ask today’s date Italians often say Quanti ne abbiamo oggi? This A1 guide gives the format, the months, the ‘primo’ exception, how to read years, and how dates look on official documents like a birth certificate.
Italian essere seduto: A1 guide to body position via essere + past participle (seduto, in piedi, sdraiato, appoggiato, inginocchiato), Boccadasse dialogue.
Italian adjectives infinitive guide for B1: bravo a, contento di, facile da, pronto per. Five families, five prepositions, set in a Murano atelier.
Italian se exclamations: B2 guide to Se sapessi!, Se solo avessi tempo!, Caspita se e buono!, and the rhetorical Se ho fame? echo. Lecce pasticceria dialogue.
Italian uses two patterns for perception verbs plus infinitive: vedo Annalisa scendere and vedo scendere Annalisa. This B1 guide covers both structures, the che alternative, pronoun position, past participle agreement, and a stage-door dialogue in Brescia.
🔍 In short. The italian modal past construction is the structure Italian uses for English “should have done”, “could have done”, “might have done”, “may have done”: a modal verb (potere, dovere, volere) combined with the past infinitive of another verb. Two patterns cover most cases: past conditional + plain infinitive for regret, and present + past infinitive for deduction. A B2 guide with Lucca pasticceria scenes.
Italian come se always takes the subjunctive: imperfect for present-unreal (parla come se sapesse), pluperfect for past-unreal (come se non fosse successo niente). B1 guide with the come se niente fosse idiom, quasi che variant, six traps and a Mantova rehearsal dialogue.