Don’t worry, you will get there soon. It’s just a matter of time and you won’t make the following mistakes anymore.<\/p>\n
It’s hard to sort\u00a0Sapere and Conoscere\u00a0since in English they both translate in “to know”. \u00a0A classic rule of thumb is<\/p>\n
Scusi, sa<\/strong> che ore sono?<\/p>\n Non so<\/strong> nuotare<\/p>\n Conosci Giorgio?<\/p>\n Conosco un ottimo ristorante a Milano<\/p>\n For some reason, Italian grammar books usually don’t include\u00a0sapere as\u00a0a modal verb<\/a>\u00a0with Potere, Dovere and Volere. It IS\u00a0a modal verb (verbo servile) and a very important one too.\u00a0Conoscere is not.<\/p>\n I once heard,”posso prendere una fotografia?” for\u00a0Can I take a picture? It’s easy to translate take into prendere but it’s not always the case.\u00a0In Italian we say “fare una fotografia”, make and not take. There are other “take” verbs you shouldn’t translate into “prendere”. Notably:<\/p>\n We already talked about the verb “piacere”<\/a>\u00a0, to like, and how Italian sentences are different compared to English. Mi piace doesn’t translate into a straight\u00a0“I like it”.\u00a0We can simplify the concept as follows<\/p>\n Let’s take for example:<\/p>\n If i say “mi piace il gelato” the subject is “il gelato”, not me, and “mi” (to me) is an indirect pronoun. “the ice cream is pleasing to me”.<\/p>\n I have to bear in mind that when I like “something plural”, e.g. shoes is the subject and I need conjugate the verb accordingly. “Mi piacciono le scarpe” and not “mi piace”. There are other verbs like “piacere”.<\/p>\n There are other verbs like piacere,\u00a0and\u00a0you will come across them eventually. Be prepared!<\/p>\n Sometimes, translating straight from\u00a0English into Italian, and vice-versa, simply doesn’t work. Be careful when you do that with\u00a0I\u00a0know, I take and I like<\/strong>.<\/p>\n I hope this mini lesson was useful. Add your comments if you wish. Alla prossima!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are some Italian verbs English speakers often mistake when they start learning Italian. Most\u00a0of my students learned them right and so should you. Let’s fix this together! Don’t worry, you will get there soon. It’s just a matter of time and you won’t make the following mistakes anymore. 1. “To know”, Sapere VS Conoscere … Read more \u226b<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10020,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[880,885,884,790,883,417,881,882],"class_list":["post-11445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lingua","tag-conoscere","tag-i-like-in-italian","tag-mi-piacciono","tag-mi-piace","tag-prendere","tag-sapere","tag-to-know-in-italian","tag-to-take-in-italian","no-featured-image-padding","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dante-learning.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dante-learning.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dante-learning.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dante-learning.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dante-learning.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dante-learning.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dante-learning.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dante-learning.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dante-learning.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
Conoscere qualcuno:\u00a0<\/strong>knowing people, places, things.<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
2. “To take” doesn’t translate\u00a0only in “prendere”<\/span><\/h2>\n
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3. “To like” Mi piace, mi piacciono<\/span><\/h2>\n
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In English “A likes B”<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
In Italian “To A, B is pleasing”<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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