Italian repeats the preposition before each conjoined noun: a Paolo e a Giorgio, con Pietro e con Caterina, di calcio e di vela. A2 guide to when you say a, con, di, da, per twice, plus the mamma-e-papa unit-pair exception. With a Bari trasloco dialogue.
Italian drops ‘mio, tuo, suo’ more often than you think. Learn when to skip the possessive and use article-only (ho perso l’orologio) for body parts, clothes, personal objects, and family. A2 guide.
Italian short follow-ups at A2: e tu? (what about you?), e Mario? (what about Mario?), e quello?, e i bambini?, plus e allora?, e poi?, come mai?. Trento café dialogue.
Italian a, di, da side by side at A2: vado a Verona, sono di Verona, vengo da Verona. Four confusion zones (cities, time, people, descriptions) with a 12-row comparison table and a Greta and Lorenzo dialogue planning a weekend in Verona.
🔍 In short. The italian quaggiù lassù family covers distance and direction in one word: quaggiù (down here), lassù (up there), laggiù (down there), quassù (up here), plus lì vicino and qua attorno for vaguer nearby. A2 guide with a baita dialogue between Bergamo and Trento.
🔍 In short. The pair stesso vs uguale is one of those A2 puzzles where English has one word and Italian has two. They split the work in a clean way. Stesso points to identity, the very thing, the one and only object or person: abbiamo lo stesso libro means we share one book, or … Read more ≫
Italian has a family of longer location words: vicino a (near), accanto a (next to), a fianco di (alongside), presso (at, c/o), davanti a, dietro a, di fronte a. A2 guide with a Palermo address-directions dialogue, comparison table, and quiz.
🔍 In short. Italian compound place adverbs like qui sopra, lì sotto, lì dentro and là vicino are two-word place expressions that point to a precise spot in space. The first word anchors near or far from the speaker; the second adds the direction.
Why does Italian say quando si è giovani in the plural when the verb is singular? B2 guide to the italian si impersonal plural adjective rule, with predicate nouns, compound participle agreement, and a side-by-side comparison with si passivante, set at a Perugia caffè.
Italian sharing-out patterns at B1: a due a due, tre per ciascuno, a uno a uno, uno alla volta, ciascuno vs ogni, a turno, un giorno si un giorno no. Field-trip dialogue in Lecce.