Learn the name of emozioni, emotions in Italian, repeat after the audio files.

Italians are famous for being passionate (passionali) and impulsive (impulsivi). Since Shakespeare’s time, foreigners in love with Italy describe our emotions in their own language. Do you actually know the name of the emotions and the relative aggettivi in Italian?

We can start sorting the the emozioni and the connected aggettivi by splitting them in positive and negative. Not surprisingly, most English adjectives sound like the Italian related aggettivi, but be aware of “false friends“, Italian and English words of the same origin, usually Latin, but different in meaning.

The correct verb for describing an emotion is PROVARE (un’emozione). If you want to describe an emotion using an adjective, you need to use the verb essere followed by the aggettivo. For example:

There are verbs other than provare for describing emotions, but provare is good for most of them, so if you want to be safe and learn gradually, just use it. Depending on the emotion, you can also use avere (“Ho una grande passione per la lingua italiana”), sentire – to feel – (“Sento molta tenerezza per il mio cane”). If you need to describe your feelings with an adjective, in some cases you can use the “verbo riflessivo” sentirsi instead of essere (“Mi sento triste” = “Sono triste”).

In the first column you can find the English emotion, the Italian emozione in the second and the aggettivo in the third.

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