Heather Broster
We recently conducted a survey in our Facebook group to discover the most popular Italian words among our readers, and over 900 of you responded! While some results, like prego (you’re welcome) and gelato (ice cream), were expected, others proved to be quite surprising. Below are the top 20 words that you, our readers, consistently …
After mastering the basic introductions, one of the first phrases worth learning in any language is “Nice to meet you.” Let’s take a look at how to translate this phrase into Italian. Piacere di conoscerti. Nice to meet you. Piacere is both a noun and a verb in Italian. When used as a verb, it …
Italian verbs can be categorised as being -are, -ere, or -ire verbs. We’ve already discussed the -are verbs here and -ere verbs here. Now the time has come to talk about the third and final type category of Italian verbs: “third conjugation” -ire verbs. How to conjugate IRE verbs in Italian Much like the other …
Each hour (ora) of the day consists of sixty minutes, which in Italian are known as minuti (singular: minuto). It comes from the late Latin minutum, which means particle, and is the neuter noun form of the adjective minutus. minuto minute Because minuto is a masculine noun, it takes the following definite and indefinite articles: …
Out of all the small and widely used adverbs in Italian, già is undoubtedly one of the most important. Its most frequent translation in English is already and it comes from the Latin word iam of the same meaning. già already It is mostly used with the passato prossimo tense, appearing between the auxiliary verb …
I can vividly recall all the Halloween costumes I donned during my childhood. If I’m being entirely truthful, my very first Halloween is a memory captured in photographs rather than one I can recall firsthand. In those pictures, I’m dressed as a red crayon, a choice made by my parents. After I outgrew the crayon …