意语词汇：意大利语学习第二课4
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Io sono vecchio. (I am old.) Tu sei carina. (You are pretty.) Noi siamo nervosi. (We are nervous.) Lei sta sulla sedia. (She is on the chair.) Note that Lei e’ seduta. (literally She is seated) is the form for She is in the chair. Essi sono sporchi. (They (the males) are dirty.) Now it’s time to explain the differences between essere and stare, before we go any further. Essere means to be or to exist, while stare usually means to stay but can be used where English idiomatics use to be. The rules are summarized here: essere is used to indicate more permanent aspects of people or things, such as - 1. Identity - Io sono Carla. (I am Carla) 2. 3. Profession - Egli è un professore. (He is a professor.) 4. 5. Origin - Noi siamo di Milano. (We are from Milan.) 6. 7. Religious or political affiliation - Tu sei cattolico? (You are Catholic?) 8. 9. Time of day or date - Sono le otto. (It is 8 o’clock.) 10. 11. Possession - La casa è di Giovanna. (It is Giovanna’s house.) 12. 13. Nationality - Sono Italiano. (I am from Italy.) 14. 15. Physical aspects or characteristics of something - Le sedie sono verdi. (The chairs are green.) 16. 17. Essential qualities of something or someone - Sono vecchio. Sei antipatico. (I am old. You are unpleasant.) 18. 19. Location - La sedia è in cucina. (The chair is in the kitchen.) 20. 21. but also, more rarely - La sedia sta in cucina. (The chair is in the kitchen.) 22. 23. Condition or emotion that is subject to change - Sono malato. (I am sick.) 24. 25. Personal observations or reactions, how something seems or feels - La cucina è pulita. (The kitchen is (seems) clean.) 26. stare is used to indicate precise locations, in idioms and as auxiliary, such as - 1. Idiomatic sentences - Sto bene.(I am well.) 2. 3. Idiomatic sentences - Sto male.(I feel bad.) 4. 5. Location - La sedia sta in cucina. (The chair is in the kitchen.) 6. 7. Continuous tense - Sto correndo.(I am running.) 8. Notes: Notice that the verb form used for things like la sedia is the egli/ella/esso(-a) form. A chair is an it (below, you’ll see that it’s actually a she), which uses the egli/ella/esso(-a) form of the verb. Also notice that you can make sentences like Sono Italiano, without including the pronoun. To English speakers this may seem like saying Am from Italy, which we would never do, but in Italian, because the subject can be figured out by the form of the verb used (since the sentence used sono, the subject must be io, or I), there is no confusion about who the subject of the sentence is and the pronoun can be left out. If it would be unclear what the subject of the sentence is, then the pronoun has to be included. The above lists of when to use essere and stare have to be memorized - using them incorrectly means you will be less likely to be understood, and people will definitely know you are not a native speaker. The same goes for the conjugations of essere and stare. Every Italian verb has a conjugation, and memorizing them just goes along with learning the language. Il, lo, la, un, uno and una (definite and indefinite articles) In Italian, as well as all the other Romance languages (French, Spanish, etc), all nouns have a gender associated with them. Chair is feminine, telephone is masculine. The way to tell whether a noun is masculine or feminine is to look at the il/lo or la that precedes the noun in the New Words section of these lessons. Il is the definite article that corresponds to masculine nouns - il professore, il telefono. La is the definite article that corresponds to feminine nouns - la casa, la tavola, la finestra. Whether a noun is considered feminine or masculine is generally based on the last letter of the noun. If the noun ends with an a, as in sedia or cucina, then it is most probably a feminine noun. If it ends with an o, such as muro or orologio (wristwatch), then it is always a masculine noun. Exceptions do exist to this rule - poeta (poet) is masculine - but the majority of Italian nouns behave normally. Nouns ending with an e, can be masculine or feminine, usually according to the meaning (like padre (father) and madre (mother) - but e.g. parete is feminine). The exceptions just have to be memorized as you come across them. When using nouns, you must make sure that you use the correct gender and number when using an identifier. The identifiers are il, lo, la, i, gli, le, un, uno and una. Il, lo and la are singular definite articles, which means you are talking about a specific thing. La sedia means the chair - you are talking about a specific chair. Un, uno and una are singular indefinite articles, which means you are taking about any member of a group of things. Una sedia means a chair - you are talking about any chair in general. The use of these identifiers is identical to the way you would say it in English - if you want to say a table, use una, and if you want to say the table, use la. i and gli are the plural of il and lo, and le is the plural of la. You use these plural definite articles when you are talking about several specific members of a group - i tavoli means the tables. There are no plural forms of uno and una, and to translate some when used in sentences, one must use indeterminate pronouns - dei tavoli means some tables. Note however that for uncountables nouns, where English uses no article (Wine is red), Italian will use an article (Il vino e’ rosso). You may wonder why there are two forms for the masculine articles (il and lo, and their plurals i and gli, as well as un and uno). The first form is used when a noun begins with a consonant (il telefono), the second form is used when a noun begins with a vowel (un Italiano), or with s followed by a consonant, or with z, gn, ps or x. As a further complication, if a (masculine or feminine) noun begins with a vowel, the articles lo and la) are not written in full form (Lo Italiano, the Italian man, or Italian language) unless a new line starts across the two words, but in abbreviated form (L’Italiano) separated by an apostrophe. The apostrophe means something has been elided (left out). Even trickier (but this is how one recognizes who knows Italian !), with indefinite articles, the apostrophe is needed only for the feminine form (since for the masculine one REPLACES uno with un which is a valid existing form, thus : un Italiano (an Italian man) but un’Italiana (an Italian woman). Here are some examples using these articles: Le stanze sono grandi. (The rooms are big.) Delle sedie sono in cucina. (Some chairs are in the kitchen.) Il telefono è verde. (The telephone is green.) La parete è brutta. (The wall is ugly.) Di, da and in Di is Italian for of (or from, in the way sometimes used in English). La casa di Teresa means Teresa’s house (literally, the house of Teresa). Sono di Milano means I am from Milan. Di is used most often to show posession or origin, as per the preceding examples. When di is followed by an il, as in la casa di il professore, the di and il are combined into del. So the only and correct way to say The (male) professor’s house would be la casa del professore. Da is Italian for from, in all cases this indicates a motion. Since we haven’t seen any verbs of motion, we can’t make examples yet. In is Italian for …… in, as in inside something (not necessarily inside a physical object). It can be used to mean that something is inside something else, as in la sedia sta in cucina (the chair is in the kitchen), or that someone is somewhere, Marco è in Italia (Mark is in Italy). Adjectives Agreement Adjectives are words that describe things, words like red, fast, and pretty. In English, there isn’t much to using adjectives because they never change - the fast car or the cars are fast. In Italian, the adjective has to agree, in both gender and number, with whatever it is describing. If the adjective modifies a feminine noun, then the adjective uses a feminine ending. If the adjective modifies a masculine plural noun, then the adjective uses a masculine plural ending. Here are some adjectives with their various endings: carino - pretty singular masculine - carino singular feminine - carina plural masculine - carini plural feminine - carine comodo - comfortable singular masculine - comodo singular feminine - comoda plural masculine - comodi plural feminine - comode brutto - ugly 相关资料 |
