Archive for January, 2008

Passive voice with the verb essere

In Italian we can express the passive voice in four different ways: with the verb essere + past participle with the verb venire + past participle with si + 3th person singular or plural of the verb with andare + past participle Today, I’ll try to explain you the first case: the use of the [...]

Posted by Agnese on January 31st, 2008

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An Italian article: “La pioggia non frena la seconda giornata di saldi”

In some Italian cities have started January sales, and last Saturday they have started in Rome too, where a strong rain fell all weekend. the journalist speaks about, in this article, with a nice Italian rich on metaphors and idioms, the first two days of sales in tha capital. Saldi bagnati, saldi fortunati (1). Almeno [...]

Posted by Agnese on January 7th, 2008

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a newspaper article: Natale col caro-Tir (1)

Normalità solo su strada. Gli agricoltori: nei mercati rincari sino al 20%. Prodotti, allarme qualità Torna la normalità, torna il caro-Natale. Il blocco dei Tir proprio non ci voleva (2): oltre ai problemi che ha creato sulle strade si è rivelato un ottimo pretesto per gli speculatori (3). Il Paese, pian piano, si rimette in [...]

Posted by Agnese on January 7th, 2008

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