Heather Broster
The Italian word serpente (snake) should be very easy to remember for English speakers, as it sounds and looks just like the synonym serpent. Serpente is a masculine noun whose plural form is serpenti. It takes the following definite and indefinite articles: il serpentethe snakeun serpentea snake i serpentithe snakesdei serpenti(some) snakes Here are a …
Il Volo is an Italian operatic pop trio, consisting of Gianluca Ginoble, Piero Barone and Ignazio Boschetto. After winning the Sanremo Music Festival in 2015 with the song Grande Amore, they represented Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015, reaching third place, and achieving first-place in the tele-voting. They are set to perform as an …
Gigliola Cinquetti was the first ever Italian winner of the Eurovision Song Contest with her song Non Ho L’Età (Per Amarti) which translates as I’m Not Old Enough (to Love You). Fifty-eight years after her win, she will be performing the song during the Grand Final of the 2022 Contest in Turin. Below you can …
The word for an ornament that one fastens to clothing, either for decorative purposes or as a clasp, is spilla in Italian. It translates as either brooch or pin in English. Being a feminine noun, it takes the following definite and indefinite articles: la spillathe broochuna spillaa brooch le spillethe broochesdelle spille(some) brooches Some different …
If you want to say “to realise” in Italian, it is possible to use the cognate realizzare, but if your aim is to sound like a true native, why not try dropping the odd “rendersi conto” into your exchanges as well? Rendersi conto is made up of: In order to make a sentence with this …
Lumaca is the name in Italian for all terrestrial (and sometimes marine) pulmonate gastropods that are either devoid of a shell, or carry a shell that isn’t visible to the naked eye. The English word for these creatures is slug. It is a feminine noun whose plural form is lumache, and takes the following definite …