Archive for the ‘Nouns’ Category
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 [...]
Italian newspaper article: “Cassazione: vietato dare del lacchè”
In this article we can note the case when the passato prossimo with the auxiliary verb avere makes agree with gendre and number (like the auxiliary verb essere) and the use of others Italian words.
According to the Supreme Court, to call someone creep is a real affront and not a easy disapproval
ROMA - [...]
Tassisti: poverissimi o grandi evasori (extract from “La Repubblica” of 29/11/2007)
This article speaks about fiscal controls of taxi drivers whose result is very interesting: they are, according to their tax returns, a very poor category. Just in these days, they are protesting a lot in Rome to avoid the extention of taxi licences.
ROMA - I tassisti italiani pagano poche tasse. In media, dichiarano al [...]
the italian word of the week: “Pronto”
Pronto means ready, immediately, prepared, fit, quickly etc. but, have you tried to call to an italian family? What did they say, pronto!? Weel, it seems funny, but pronto can be have value of interjection and we use it every time that we answer the telephone.
“Pronto chi parla?”
“Buongiorno, sono Giorgio c’è Mario?
or
“Pronto!”
“Pronto sono il Dr. [...]
The Italian word of the week: “problema”
The Italian word problema means problem, question, case.
I would like to call your attention on this word that ends in “-a” but it’s a masculine word. We say il problema and not la problema, and in plural “-a” changes in “-i“, it means
il problema - i problemi
Do you konw other words that are belong [...]
A particular case of plural forms in Italian: words ending in “-cia” and “gia”
When I teach Italian, I always ask: “when I buy 1Kg arance (oranges), do I buy them with -i (that means: arancie) or without -i (that means: arance)?”
One of particular cases of plural forms is, in my opinion, the case of feminine words ending in “-cia” or “-gia“.
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How to do the plural of nouns in Italian language
It’s not very easy to do the plural form of nouns in Italian. Normally, when nouns end in -o (in general it’s masculine) the plural is -i; and when nouns end in -a the plural form is -e,
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