IT意大利语

Quale? is used to indicate people, animals, or things. It expresses “What is...?“ when the answer involves a choice, or when one requests information such as a name, telephone number, or address. ...

Interrogative adjectives indicate a quality or indefinite quantity and come with specific nouns. The most common forms are che (what? what kind of?), quale (which?), and quanto (how much? how many?). ...

Notice the difference in meaning between che and quale. The question Quali film hai visto? asks “Which films have you seen?“ (For example, Il Postino, Ciao Professore! or La Vita ? Bella.) The que...

What about the most delicious pasta? The ultimate gelato? The absolute superlative expresses the concepts of very, extremely, or most. In Italian, superlatives are formed by adding the suffix -issimo ...

Your grade school English teacher told you repeatedly that you couldn’t use more than one negative word in the same sentence. In Italian, though, the double negative is the acceptable format, and ev...

Romeo and Juliet meet, hug, kiss, and fall in love. They comfort each other, admire each other, and get married—but not without some help from reciprocal reflexive verbs! These verbs express a recip...

In Italian, to express an action that began in the past and is still going on in the present, use the verb in the present tense + da + length of time. This construction does not exist in English, wher...

I am eating, you are drinking, the soprano is singing. In Italian, the gerund (il gerundio) is equivalent to the “-ing“ verb form in English. To form the simple gerund in Italian, add -ando to the...

Need to tell your teacher, supervisor, or the Italian prime minister to do something? Use the subjunctive form of the verb to form the formal commands. The table below contains some examples of formal...

In English the definite article (l’articolo determinativo) has only one form: the. In Italian,l’articolo determinativohas different forms according to the gender, number, and first letter of the n...