IT意大利语

Ordinal numbers are used to express denominations of fractions: “one third“ is written as un terzo and “five sevenths“ as cinque setimi. “One half“ may be translated as mezzo, mezza, una m...

Basic(基本词汇)Hello -------Ciaoyes -------sino -------noGood morning---Buon giornoGood night -----Buona notteGoodbye -------ArrivederciThank you ------Graziewhat -------che cosawhich -------chewh...

tourist -------turistacity -------cittàmoney -------monetastore -------provistarestaurant -----ristorantefamily -------famigliamother -------madrefather -------padresister -------sorellabrother -----...

work -------lavorarevisit -------visitaresmoke -------fumarelike -------piacerelove -------amarepay -------pagarehear -------udirethink -------pensareAdjectives(形容词)beautiful--bellopretty-----be...

You might find cardinal (counting) numbers the most useful to know—you will need them to express time, record dates, do math, interpret recipe amounts, and, of course, count. In Italian, cardinal nu...

Beyond 100Do you remember those good old days before the euro’s arrival in Italy when you would pay a few thousand lire for admission to a museum or a cappuccino and biscotti? Tourists needed more t...

CapitalizationMany words that are capitalized in English are not capitalized in Italian. These include: the days of the week, the months of the year, proper adjectives, a few proper nouns, and titles ...

This Week’s New Words:ciao - hello, goodbye (familiar)salve - helloaddio - goodbyebene - wellegli - he (literary)lui - he (common speech), himella - she (literary)lei - she (common speech), heresso ...

The Italian alphabet is fairly similar to our own (English, or depending on where you’re from, American). The letters K,J,W,X,Y occur only in foreign origin words. Each lesson will explain a few mor...

A note on accents : dictionaries indicate the tonic accent, i.e. put an accent on the vowel in the stressed syllable in the word (this is in the vast majority of cases the last but one, so called plai...