{"id":2572,"date":"2012-10-29T10:52:39","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T10:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/?p=2572"},"modified":"2012-10-29T11:09:12","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T11:09:12","slug":"facciamo-le-operazioni-in-italiano-lets-do-some-sums-in-italian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/facciamo-le-operazioni-in-italiano-lets-do-some-sums-in-italian\/","title":{"rendered":"Facciamo le operazioni in Italiano – Let’s do some sums in Italian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, Transparent Language published a blog called Italian Numbers 1-20<\/strong><\/span><\/a> Today I\u2019m going to follow that up by looking at what we call le quattro<\/strong>\u00a0operazioni <\/strong>(the four operations): addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Here are a few simple examples.<\/p>\n

l\u2019addizione <\/strong>(addition):<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

due pi\u00f9 due fa quattro <\/strong>(two plus two equals\/makes four)<\/p>\n

quindici pi\u00f9 tre pi\u00f9 due fa venti<\/strong> (fifteen plus three plus two equals\/makes twenty)<\/p>\n

mi servono due metri di stoffa per la giacca, e un metro e mezzo per la gonna. Allora, due metri pi\u00f9 un metro e mezzo fanno tre metri e mezzo <\/strong>(I need two metres of fabric for the jacket, and one and a half metres for the skirt. So two meters plus one and a half makes three and a half metres)<\/p>\n

la sottrazione <\/strong>(subtraction):<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

quattro meno due fa due<\/strong> (four minus two equals\/makes two)<\/p>\n

venti meno dieci meno dieci fa zero<\/strong> (twenty minus ten minus ten equals\/makes zero)<\/p>\n

Marco ha quattordici anni e Giorgio ne ha undici. Quanti anni di differenza ci sono fra Marco e Giorgio?<\/strong> (Marco is fourteen years old, and Giorgio is eleven. What\u2019s the difference in age between them?) Vediamo,<\/strong> quattordici meno undici fa tre, quindi Giorgio ha tre anni meno di Marco<\/strong> (Let\u2019s see, fourteen minus eleven makes three, therefore Giorgio is three years younger than Marco)<\/p>\n

la moltiplicazione <\/strong>(multiplication):<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

due per due fa quattro <\/strong>(two times two equals\/makes four)<\/p>\n

tre per due fa sei, moltiplicato cinque fa trenta<\/strong> (three times two makes six, multiplied by five equals\/makes thirty)<\/p>\n

la stanza misura tre metri per quattro, tre per quattro fa dodici, per cui mi servono dodici metri quadrati di mattonelle<\/strong> (the room measures three metres by four metres, three by four makes twelve, therefore I need twelve square metres of floor tiles)<\/p>\n

la divisione <\/strong>(division):<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

quattro diviso due fa due <\/strong>(four divided by two equals\/makes is two)<\/p>\n

venti diviso cinque fa quattro, diviso due fa due<\/strong> (twenty divided by five equals\/makes, divided by two equals\/makes\u00a0 two)<\/p>\n

ci sono dodici cioccolatini e noi siamo in quattro, dodici diviso quattro fa tre, perci\u00f2 potete prendere tre cioccolatini a testa<\/strong> (there are twelve chocolates and four of us, twelve divided by four equals\/makes\u00a0 three, so you can have three chocolates each)<\/p>\n

Now let\u2019s finish off with a bit of fun. This is a famous song from Lo Zecchino d\u2019Oro<\/strong>, an Italian children\u2019s song competition, called Quarantaquattro Gatti<\/strong> (Forty Four Cats).<\/p>\n

Click on the picture to hear part of the song (30 seconds will probably be enough!), and see the text:<\/p>\n

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Last week, Transparent Language published a blog called Italian Numbers 1-20 Today I\u2019m going to follow that up by looking at what we call le quattro\u00a0operazioni (the four operations): addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Here are a few simple examples. l\u2019addizione (addition): due pi\u00f9 due fa quattro (two plus two equals\/makes four) quindici pi\u00f9 tre…<\/p>\n

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