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 [...]

Comparative hypothetical  clauses are sentences which establish an  hypothetical comparison with the main clause. In this case the verb is always in the past of subjunctive. We use  imperfect of subjunctive if the main clause is in the present and past perfect of subjunctive if the main clause is in the past tense.
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Why do women read more novels than men?  Francesco Alberoni, a great contemporary sociologist and psycologist, wrote an interesting article in the newspaper Il Corriere della Sera about this  phenomenon
Se una sera andate a cena da degli amici e portate come regalo un romanzo spesso il padrone di casa vi dirà: «Grazie, mia moglie ne [...]

 

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We have already spoken about the improper prepostions with adverbs. Now we see adjectives and participles which have this peculiarity.
Italian adjectives that can be used as prepositions are: vicino, lontano, salvo, lungo, secondo ecc.
I can say:
Questa strada è molto lunga and in this case lunga is an adjective, but I can also say
lungo il [...]

In addition to the proper prepositions (di, a, da, in, con, su, per, tra, fra) we use in Italian other words which have the same function of a preposition but they can be adverbs, adjectives or participles. Therefore these words are named improper prepositions.
Now we see some adverbs that have this peculiarity.
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When the Italian  particle ci and ne are together, they form the object pronoun ce ne, example:
Quante uova ci vogliono per la carbonara?
Ce (= volerci) ne (= di uova) vuole una ogni 2 persone.
Quante scarpe hai messo nella scarpiera?
Ce (= nella scarpiera) ne (= di scarpe) ho messe 20.
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The Italian adjectives buono, cattivo, alto, basso, grande and piccolo, have two forms of comparative and suparlative; example:
Il bar all’angolo è più buono di quello sotto l’ufficio = Il bar all’angolo è migliore di quello sotto l’ufficio
I dolci preparati da Luisa sono i più cattivi della festa = dolci preparati da Luisa sono i peggiori [...]

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

The present and past gerund are invariable verbal forms (it means that are verb forms not related to time) and are used in the dependent clauses.
The meanings of the gerund forms are the following:
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We can use the Italian “si” in many cases:

as adverb of italin assertions, example:
“hai comprato il giornale di oggi?” - “Sì!”
as reflexive pronuon third person singular and plural, example:
il Sig. Rossi si alza presto la mattina;
i Signori Bianchi si addormentano sempre molto tardi la sera.
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