Tag Archives: Italian grammar
La Festa dei Santi–Part 2: Grammatical Notes Posted by Serena on Apr 30, 2015
How did you get on with yesterday’s article, La Festa dei Santi? Hope you didn’t find it too complicated. Whilst I was reading through it and highlighting some of the vocabulary for the footnotes, I also picked out a few grammatical points that I felt it would be worth discussing. Below you’ll find short excerpts…
July’s Grammar Clinic Posted by Serena on Jul 4, 2014
Your feedback and questions are very important to us, as they really help us to focus on your needs. Sometimes readers have questions about particular aspect of Italian grammar that we feel it would be useful to share with everyone. Here are three important ones: Question 1. From Robin: I have another “reader’s question” and…
Ombrello, ombrellino, ombrellone Posted by Serena on May 4, 2009
Ideas for blogs come in all shapes and sizes. This blog, which deals with nomi alterati (altered nouns) was inspired by a short filastrocca (nursery rhyme) by Luigi Grossi: L’ombrello Se il tempo e’ piu’ brutto che bello, c’e’ chi porta l’ombrello. Se pero’ chi lo porta e’ un bambino, l’ombrello e’ un ombrellino. Se invece…
Reflexive Verbs Posted by Serena on Mar 5, 2009
Mi chiamo Serena. Come ti chiami? (my name is Serena. What is your name?). This is the first thing I say to my students whenever I start a new Italian class, and it’s probably the first thing you’ll find in most phrasebooks. But it’s also a sentence that illustrates really well one of the many differences between Italian and…