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GLI INDEFINITI – the indefinites Indefinite adjectives or pronouns are really a lot. They are usually different in every language. They are those words which give a non-specified quantity of something or someone, like “some”, “any”, “several”, “a lot”, “a few”, “enough” etc... (in case of adjective) or “someone”, “no one”, “anyone” etc... (in case of pronoun). I’m going to make a list of all these indefinites, specifying if they are adjectives, pronouns or both. ALCỤNO: it can be both adjective and pronoun. It refers

EXCLAMATIVE SENTENCES Exclamations can be expressed according to the quality and the quantity of something or someone and they can be introduced by a verb or not. Just remember this big rule: when we introduce an exclamation with a verb, our sentence will begin with the word “come” (how), if our sentence does not have a verb, it will begin with the word “che” (what). In Italian is very common to say an exclamation even without specifying what we are referring to (when it is understood of course). To build such exclamation we just  say “Che + the adjective”, for example: “Che bello!” – Nice

SUPPOSITIONS/DEDUCTIONS Of course we can make deductions or suppositions about the past and the present. Let’s first consider deductions first. DEDUCTIONS (derived from some kind of analysis) To express this kind of deduction in the present we use , like in English, the modal verb DOVERE (must) + infinitive form of the main verb, for example: “Questa lettera dev’essere di Licia” – This letter must be from Licia (notice that “deve essere” can become “dev’essere”; we say “una lettera di” (from) someone, “da” (from) somewhere and “per” (for) someone)

IMPERATIVE MOOD I’ve been waiting to teach you the imperative mood because in order to express it completely we needed to know the subjunctive mood. The imperative mood has only one tense, the present one, and it refers only to certain people, specifically the 2nd singular person, the 1st plural person and the 2 singular person. The 3rd people (singular and plural) exist as well but are quite rare, aren’t they? So let’s pass them. So let’s start saying that the imperative mood in Italian is quite different from the other Neo-Latin language, and we need to underline the difference between a negative and a positive sent

Some other irregular verbs. The following verbs are very irregular in simple present tense fo indicative. MORIRE – to die, auxiliary verb “essere”, past participle: MORTO Io muọio Tu muọri Egli muọre Noi moriạmo Voi morịte Essi muọiono So notice that it is “regular” except for the fact that the letter “o” becomes “uo” in every person but “noi” and “voi”. SEDERE – to sit, to sit down (usually used in the reflexive form “sedersi”), so auxiliary verb “essere”, past participle: SEDUTO Io siẹdo Tu s

The “IF” clauses In Italian, like in English, we can distinguish 4 kinds of “if clause” according to the possibility of fulfilment of the action. Zero conditional: 100% of probability – “If/when I drink wine, I get drunk” – Se/quando bevo il vino, mi ubriaco (UBRIACARSI, reflexive regular – to get drunk) This clause expresses a general hypothesis and uses always the present simple in both clauses, as in English, so in Italian! “Se Carla vede un ragno, salta sulla sedia!” – If Carla sees a spider, she jumps on the chair! (RAGNO/I [m] – spider; SEDIA/E [f] – ch

SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD LET’S DO IT!!! It’s time to “jump” into the subjunctive mood, the terrible one. The terrible thing about this mood is that we can express our ideas and our thoughts perfectly even without it, BUT! It is considered a great sign of ignorance not to use it. Why?? Well,... maybe because Neo-Latin languages speakers (the cleverest one) are too obsessed with everything that connects their language with Latin... and the subjunctive mood it’s just one of them. Anyway, the grammar rules are rules so we have to learn it! Many people don’t use it very often maybe because it is not in their dialect, bu

CONDITIONAL MOOD It’s time to learn the conditional mood. The conditional mood has two tenses. Present and Past. The present conditional is used  to express the possibility to do or not to do something in the present, just like in English; the past is used to express a missed chance to do or not to do something in the past. There is a great difference though between English and Italian: English uses the auxiliary verb “would” + the base form of the main verb; In Italian, the conditional mood has its own conjugation. But don’t worry, it is quite easy because it is very very similar to the simple future tense. In fact th