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October Italian Grammar Quiz – The Solutions Posted by Serena on Oct 28, 2016
Lazy astronauts up in your space station, and lazy submariners under the polar ice cap … where are your answers? Luckily some of our clever readers have had a go at this weeks quiz, which, if you haven’t yet seen it, you can find HERE. Now, let’s see how you got on. 1. Finché or…
October Italian Grammar Quiz Posted by Geoff on Oct 26, 2016
Time for a quiz, and time for all of you who are normally too shy, or too busy to leave us a comment. That includes you, astronauts up in the space station, and you, submariners under the polar ice cap … we know you’re reading this! Fill in the blanks in the Italian translations below…
Italian False Negatives Posted by Geoff on Sep 14, 2016
One of the questions that we are most frequently asked by readers is: ‘why oh why is there a non in the expression finché non or fino a quando non (meaning: until)?’ Ah, the dreaded pleonastic non, enemy of every student of Italian! Well, this is one of those cases in which you just have to…
Finché, o finché non? Posted by Serena on Jun 30, 2010
Finché is a tricky little word that can create a few problems for the student of Italian due to the fact that it changes meaning depending on whether or not it is followed by ‘non’. Let’s have a look: Finché means ‘per tutto il tempo che’ (for all the time that), and it is normally…