The Definite Article and its Use in Italian
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
- The good thing about learning another language like Italian is that in learning all the grammar, we end up better understanding English grammar as well! Have you heard of a definite article before? Well you use them every day, considering that "the" is one of the most commonly used words in English. Unfortunately in Italian there is more than one, so let's learn them all now!
Script by Patrizia Farina, Professor of Italian at Western Connecticut State University and Purchase College.
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This was quite confusing to me a few months back. I've come back for a recap and they're making much more sense now. Every day, I make myself say a few phrases in my head. Ones involving harder structure.
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I understood Italian more from you than my course teacher.
Wish you the best!
Being going through this series bit by bit and it is absolutely brilliant.Thanks so much Proffesor Dave
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You don’t understand the how you’ve just linked so much in my head. Grazie mille
wow, I discovered this channel by your great math/chemistry videos, and now I realize you also teach Italian. Thank you for this great content once again, you really help us understand..
Your videos are the best! Thank for explaining so clearly and just getting to the point. Your graphics are really helpful and clean too.
The best explanation.Thanks
Thank you! I always get about 50% through your Italian "lessons", then slowly lose comprehension...which is exactly the perfect challenge/motivation delta for me.
Thanks, this really helped me.
Thanks for the lesson
A lot of confusion between il and lo il used before consonant and lo used before only with some words like s+consonant , ps ,z, pn etc. so why we not use il with these
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Yes it has really a lot of confusion
Tip: If you reference to another lesson, it would be great if there would be a link in the vid or the description to that lesson, now I have to search and hope your lesson comes up first...
When I do so, a card shows up on the upper right corner of the screen, if you click it, you'll be taken to that lesson.
Quick Question. I studied and speak fluent Spanish. So I would to learn Italian. What do you mean by starting with special sounds in io studente? for the definite articles
thanks professor it was educating
Thanks for the video this was very helpful. I liked the video!
Grzie per video, 6:12 how we understand professore is masculine? Must I memorize?
Thanks! So helpful! Grazie tante♥️
Thank you
5:34 I have a question: why we didn’t use “è” instead of “sono” because we are referring to the time (it) and (it)use “è” same as she and he.Why you used “sono”?
I don’t know much Italian but I think the subject in telling Italian time is the number of the hour on the clock. For example, if it’s 1 AM or 1 PM, e is used, but if it’s any other time, say from 2 AM to 12 Noon or 2 PM to 12 Midnight, sono is used. (Even if it’s only minutes past 1AM or 1PM, it’s already plural). In the example used above, it’s 2 o’clock (due), so the subject is plural and the verb should be plural also. This is the same thing in Spanish. 😊✌️
@@larrynarvaez7545 true! that make sense now thank u Larry!
Finally, usage of the definite article, thanks! Next lesson, please, when the def article is not necessary in front of the noun.
Professor David, is valigie and not valige. By the way you are great and clear especially in chemistry. thanks a lot!
Grazie mille 👍
Hi! How do I know for words that end with 'e'. Like dottore or lezione, and why is it that it is il dottore vs la lezione? Can someone please explain the logic for it?
How do you know if an object is masc or fem? That doesn't make any sense to me.
yep it's weird, some of them are easy to guess but some are not so logical and just have to be memorized. such are the romance languages!
@@ProfessorDaveExplains Geez that's very hard hopefully on my test it will say if the word is masc of fem unless it ends in an a or o in which case it is obvious. Thanks for your response!
if the word ends in 'a' its feminine but if it ends in 'o' it is masculine
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Love your channel! I watch your videos for math stuff sometimes and I'm just starting to learn Italian and when I saw that you made Italian videos I was like " n o w a y ". Love your work, keep it up. (Also your flat earth videos are pretty great)
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Lot of thanks for you
Thank you so very much
Yeah but how do you know if they are a masculine or feminine word. Without knowing that you can’t predict the others from my understanding?
Prof. Dave, why does "dammi" contain two m's?
Correct
It's due to a very common phenomenon of Italian phonology known as "syntactic gemination": some words - such as stressed monosyllables, oxyton words and others - cause the "strengthening" of the first consonant of the following word (as long as there's no kind of punctuation separating them), which is pronounced as if it was double:
"fa' presto" pronounced like [faPPrèsto]
"sta' fermo" just as [staFFérmo]
"va' piano" just as [vaPPjàno]
When this occurs within a single word, the gemination becomes orthographically evident. The 2nd-person singular imperative of the verbs "dare", "fare", "stare", "andare" and "dire", when used in their apostrophized form, are monosyllables that fit this rule: here's why when we have to attach an object pronoun to them, its first consonant is doubled:
dare --> da' (imp.) --> dalle (da' + le)
fare --> fa' (imp.) --> fanne (fa' + ne)
stare --> sta' (imp.) --> stammi (sta' + mi)
andare --> va' (imp.) --> vacci (va' + ci)
dire --> di' (imp.) --> dillo (di' + lo)
The only object pronoun that doesn't undergo gemination is GLI, as it is already a geminated sound by nature:
"dagli" - "stagli" - "vagli" ...
Lo is used for nouns that either start with the letter z, or or with s followed by a consonant. True?
Correct.
Lo is also used for nouns that start with the letters x, y, gn, gli, and ps. 😊✌️
Also, io-, as in lo ione (ion), or lo iodio (iodium)
@@bonbonpony I'm fully aware.
I’m so freaking confused 😂
Cosa significa la barra sopra la E in italiano?
Well presented.
Are there no feminine nouns starting with special sound in Italian at all?
nope!
Thanx! 👍
I am doing an Italian Course.I do not understand any of it.The Speaking,Writing,
Reading,Listening,and especially the Grammar,I will never understand.I would
say,I get one or two out of ten.I do my best,but my best is not good enough.
Not to worry.I have been on French,German and Spanish Courses before,with
the same result.I do not understand any of them.
i dont understand sono gia? where does that derive from.
What is a word "with a special sound?"
I see languages with and without the definite article - and am confused - when is it "il cinese" and when just "cinese"
this guy explains stuff better than my Italian teacher
Thank you,
what is “special sound”? i’m new to italian, sorry if that’s irrelevant
there's a tutorial earlier in the playlist specifically for that concept
Carry on
Dave. Is. Soo ooo. Cooool
you saved me.
Apparently really care about Lo
What is that profile picture #schoolsucks!
I caffe sono or sonno ?
Sono. 😊✌️
i think you can improve a lot, this is kind of hard to understand for a begginer. thanks anyway for the video
Chao
Ciao*
Il professore
I professori
La valigia
Le valige
?? specchio
Gli specchi
You look pretty cute