Italian preposition A


Prepositions are small words used to connect the elements of a sentence. Learning how to use prepositions correctly is one of the biggest problems for foreign students.

Italian imperfect tense


In Italian we use different tenses to talk about past events. We have already studied “passato prossimo” (read the article at this link), one of the most common tense we use for the past. Today we learn another useful tense called “imperfetto”.

Italian exercises: Preposizioni


Completa le frasi con le preposizioni corrette (semplici e articolate) e scrivi le risposte nei commenti.

Italian irregular past participle (2)

When I talked about “passato prossimo”, I explained how to form past participle in Italian. However, many Italian verbs have an irregular past participle.
Here are the most common irregular past participles.

Italian irregular past participles (1)

In the lesson about “passato prossimo”, I have explained that Italian past participle can be formed by replacing the final endings of the infinitive (-ARE, -ERE, -IRE) with: -ATO, -UTO and -ITO. But there are Italian verbs that don't follow this rule.

Italian exercises: Aggettivi dimostrativi

Completa le frasi con gli aggettivi dimostrativi (quel, quell', quello, quegli, quei, quell', quella, quelle) e lascia le risposte nei commenti.

Italian present perfect tense

In Italian we use different tenses to talk about past events. Today we study “passato prossimo”, one of the most common Italian past tense.

The Italian adjective “Bello”

Italian adjectives usually are placed after nouns. There are, however, some adjectives that can be placed also before nouns. One of these is the adjective “bello” (beautiful) that is regular when it follows the noun, but changes its form when it precedes the noun.

How to introduce someone in Italian

In my previous lesson we have learnt how to introduce ourselves. Now we learn how to introduce other people.