The stress on Italian words can be on different syllables. Let’s learn different scenarios and rules. Accento piano. (plain stress) The vast majority of Italian words has the stress on the penultimate syllable, hence the musical cadence of our language. If you have doubts on a word and need to guess, that’s the easiest way … Read more ≫
Italian conditional sentences are the so called “periodo ipotetico”. There are three types of conditional sentences: realtà, possibilità and irrealtà. Solve the quiz Se avessi tempo, andrei in vacanza. Here’s the plain grammar. The periodo ipotetico is the combination of two sentences: a subordinate clause expressing a possibility and a main clause expressing the outcome. The conjunction … Read more ≫
Chi and Che are very important, at times confusing, Italian words. Solve the quiz at the bottom of the blog In my last quiz about relative pronouns, I wrote the following sentence: Non so chi sia la persona che ha telefonato oggi. Translating Italian into English makes things more complicated. I repeated the quiz with my intermediate and advanced students … Read more ≫
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The tenses of the Italian Indicativo Mood “Indicate”, a Real Situation. Let’s describe and understand them with some examples. We can simplify and say that the indicativo is the mood of reality; the congiuntivo is the mood of possibility, uncertainty, and opinion; the condizionale is the mood of possibility under a certain condition; the imperativo … Read more ≫
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Studi spesso l’italiano? Learn the most common Italian adverbs of frequency Italian adverbs of frequency are part of a bigger family: avverbi di tempo. We can simplify and use the most common ones, as described in this chart. Mai and Sempre, never and always, are the extremes of the range. Some examples (without translation…). mai = never -> … Read more ≫
Italians are passionate and emotional, and so is our language. INTERIEZIONI An interiezione (or esclamazione) is an inviariable part of a sentence (no masculine / feminine, singular / plural) expressing a sudden emotion. It comes from the Latin interiecere, “to throw in the middle”, because it comes suddenly, in the middle of a conversation, usually followed by … Read more ≫
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