This song is, in my opinion, the most beautiful love song of Jovanotti.  His lyrics are very easy; listen to the song and read his lyrics,  then take a look at the glossary to check your Italian:

“A te”:
A te che sei l’unica al mondo
L’unica ragione per arrivare fino in fondo
Ad ogni mio respiro
Quando ti guardo
Dopo [...]

The present gerund is formed from the infinitive of the verb and its endings are:
- are > - ando [...]

The present conditional forms of verbs in -are and in -ere have the same ending:
-erei, -eresti, -erebbe; eremmo, -ereste, -erebbero
For verbs in -ire:
-irei, -iresti, - irebbe, -iremmo, -ireste, -irebbero.
The present Conditional is used in Italian for:

expressing a wish, example:
Mi piacerebbe andare la cinema oggi.
giving advice, example:
Se fossi in te prenderei il treno [...]

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 passive with the verb essere [...]

Cavarsela is an Italian  pronominal verb. Pronominal verbs are verbs with one or two pronouns that change a little the original meaning of the  verb. Italians use  very often this verbs in the spoken language.
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The verb scegliere (to choose) has a particular irregularity in its conjugation in present tense: I cannot say “io sceglio“, but I have to say “io scelgo”.It means that for the first singular person (io) and the third plural person (loro) there is a reversal of consonats. This is the correct conjugation in the [...]

When we speak, we use often  “verbi pronominali”. It means verbs that are conjugated with one or two pronouns that change a bit the original meaning.
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