{"id":16131,"date":"2018-04-26T12:24:09","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T10:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/?p=16131"},"modified":"2018-04-26T12:24:09","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T10:24:09","slug":"an-extremely-subjunctive-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/an-extremely-subjunctive-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"An Extremely Subjunctive Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">Happily, thanks to the correct list of body parts that we sent him, our grammatically challenged Tenente Ciceri didn&#8217;t have to spend a month directing traffic! <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">If you haven&#8217;t already done so, you can read part 1. here: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/the-strange-case-of-the-irregular-body\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;text-decoration: underline\">The Strange Case Of The Irregular Body<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">The List Of Irregular Body Parts:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">the ear = <strong>l&#8217;orecchio<\/strong>; the ears = <strong>le orecchie<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff\"> the hand = <strong>la mano<\/strong>; the hands = <strong>le mani<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff\"> the finger = <strong>il dito<\/strong>; the fingers = <strong>le dita<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff\"> the leg = <strong>la gamba<\/strong>; the legs = <strong>le gambe<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff\"> the knee = <strong>il ginocchio<\/strong>; the knees = <strong>le ginocchia<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff\"> the foot = <strong>il piede<\/strong>; the feet = <strong>i piedi<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff\"> the arm = <strong>il braccio<\/strong>; the arms = <strong>le braccia<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">Unfortunately though, poor Ciceri seems to find the Italian subjunctive equally mystifying, and is once again trying the patience of our long suffering Ispettore Augusto!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080\"><em>Story by Serena<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16176\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone post-item__attachment\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/100_8079.jpg\" aria-label=\"100 8079\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16176\" class=\"wp-image-16176 size-full\"  alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/100_8079.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/100_8079.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/100_8079-350x263.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/100_8079-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16176\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #999999\"><strong><em>&#8230; e se fossero questi gli orecchini preziosi che indossava la vittima?<\/em><\/strong><em> Photo by Serena<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">L&#8217;Ispettore Augusto e il Tenente Ciceri sono al commissariato ad esaminare lo Strano Caso del Corpo Irregolare e a fare ipotesi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Ispettore Augusto: &#8220;Allora, Tenente Ciceri, ricapitoliamo. Cosa sappiamo del Corpo Irregolare?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Tenente Ciceri: &#8220;Sappiamo che \u00e8 una donna giovane di 25-30 anni, e abbiamo la testa senza &#8230; senza &#8230; &#8220;, di nascosto legge la lista con le parti del corpo e i loro plurali irregolari: &#8220;senza orecchie!&#8221; esclama soddisfatto dopo qualche esitazione.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Ispettore Augusto: &#8220;Bravo, vedo che ha imparato. Continui.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Tenente Ciceri, continuando a leggere dalla lista che tiene nascosta dentro alla manica: &#8220;il torso, le mani, la mano sinistra senza il dito anulare, la parte superiore delle gambe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Ispettore Augusto: &#8220;Perch\u00e9 l&#8217;assassino ha tagliato solo l&#8217;anulare sinistro?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Tenente Ciceri: &#8220;Pu\u00f2 essere che la vittima abbiasse un anello prezioso.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Ispettore Augusto: &#8220;<em>Avesse<\/em>! Si dice &#8216;<em>avesse<\/em>&#8216;, non &#8216;<em>abbiasse<\/em>&#8216;!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Tenente Ciceri: &#8220;S\u00ec, signor Ispettore, pu\u00f2 essere che la vittima avesse un anello prezioso, che fusse un anello di fidanzamento.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Ispettore Augusto: &#8220;Che &#8216;<em>fosse<\/em>&#8216; un anello di fidanzamento!&#8221;, poi fra s\u00e9 e s\u00e9: &#8220;Quest&#8217;asino non sa usare neanche i congiuntivi!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Tenente Ciceri: &#8220;&#8230; che fosse un anello di fidanzamento molto costoso.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Ispettore Augusto: &#8220;E&#8217; possibile, ma perch\u00e9 le avrebbe tagliato anche le orecchie?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Tenente Ciceri: &#8220;Possiamo immaginare che l&#8217;assassino vuolisse anche gli orecchini, anch&#8217;essi preziosi&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Ispettore Augusto, disperato per l&#8217;ignoranza del suo assistente: &#8220;<em>Volesse<\/em>, <em>VOLESSE<\/em>!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8220;Pu\u00f2 essere che la vittima indossavassi gioielli preziosi anche al collo e ai bracci &#8230; alle braccia&#8221; dice con aria trionfante il Tenente Ciceri.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">L&#8217;ispettore Augusto alza le braccia al cielo in segno di resa: &#8220;<em>Indossasse<\/em>! La sua ipotesi \u00e8 plausibile, Tenente Ciceri, ma la sua grammatica fa acqua da tutte le parti. Vada a casa a studiare il congiuntivo imperfetto perch\u00e9 cos\u00ec non si pu\u00f2 continuare!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399\">Dear readers, if you too need to revise the imperfect subjunctive like our poor Tenent Ciceri check out this article: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/the-italian-subjunctive-4-imperfect-tense\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #333399;text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Congiuntivo Imperfetto<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"263\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/100_8079-350x263.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/100_8079-350x263.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/100_8079-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/100_8079.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>Happily, thanks to the correct list of body parts that we sent him, our grammatically challenged Tenente Ciceri didn&#8217;t have to spend a month directing traffic! 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