Basic Italian: A Grammar and Workbook

Exercise 2 Supply the correct form of molto/tanto, troppo or poco (adverbs or adjectives). Examples: Anna è (molto) alta: molto; ...

Exercise 4 Translate into Italian: 1 Sometimes I eat in the canteen. 2 The swimming pool is quite big. 3 We often go out with ou ...

UNIT SEVEN Direct object pronouns (1) 1 A direct object is the person or thing that the verb directly impacts on: Invito Elena ( ...

3 We saw in Unit 3 that if an adjective refers to two or more nouns that are different in gender, it has the masculine plural fo ...

6 The pronoun lo [ms] is often used to replace a whole clause: 7 When the pronouns lo and la are used with the verb avere, they ...

Exercise 1 Rewrite the sentences, replacing the words in italics with the correct direct object pronoun. Example: Luigi compra i ...

Exercise 4 Complete the sentences with the appropriate direct object pronouns. Examples: Marco telefona agli amici e —— invita a ...

UNIT EIGHT Prepositions 1 The most common Italian prepositions are the following: The meaning of tra and fra is the same. Thes ...

Using prepositions 3 As in many other languages, there is so much variation in how Italian prepositions are used that it is not ...

The most common uses of di are the ones which correspond to the English possessive (’s) and the noun + noun structure: Di is fre ...

A is also used, followed by a verb in the infinitive, after certain verbs like andare (to go), venire (to come), cominciare (to ...

7 In is typically used to express: NB: in piedi means ‘standing’; ‘on foot’ is a piedi. 8 Con is typically used to express: 9 ...

11 Tra and fra are typically used to express: Prepositions of place 12 Here are some examples of the different prepositions used ...

Prepositions of time 15 Some examples of the different prepositions used to denote time: 16 Di is used with the days of the week ...

A or in? 19 Sometimes it can be difficult to know whether to use a or in, so we list below common expressions using these two pr ...

Compound prepositions 20 Italian also has a number of ‘compound prepositions’, e.g. accanto a, ‘next to/beside’, invece di, ‘ins ...

Exercise 2 Complete the sentences with the correct prepositions and, where necessary, combine them with the definite article. Ex ...

Exercise 4 Translate into Italian: 1I finish working at six. 2 Antonio’s leaving for Genoa. 3 Gemma was born in 2001. 4 Fabia ne ...

UNIT NINE Questions In this unit we will look at the most common ways of asking questions in Italian. We have already seen (Unit ...

2 Che cosa? Cosa? Che? All three mean ‘what’ and are used when referring to objects. Che cosa?, Cosa? and Che? are invariable in ...