Basic Italian: A Grammar and Workbook

Note that succedere is an impersonal verb: something or things can happen, but succedere cannot be used like the English ‘I hap ...

Dovere, potere, volere 12 The present perfect of dovere, potere and volere is normally formed with the auxiliary avere, but when ...

Exercise 2 Supply the present perfect of the verb in brackets. Example: Anna (partire) ieri: è partita Exercise 3 Supply the pre ...

Exercise 4 Translate into Italian: 1We’ve already done this exercise. 2 I haven’t finished reading the paper yet. 3 Stefano’s ne ...

UNIT THIRTEEN Direct and indirect object pronouns (2) 1 When a direct object pronoun is used with a verb in the present perfect ...

2 The rule given above does not apply to indirect object pronouns: with these, the past participle of the verb never changes: 3 ...

4 In contemporary spoken Italian (and sometimes in written Italian as well), agreement of the past participle with first and sec ...

Exercise 2 Complete the sentences with the correct direct or indirect object pronoun, making sure that the past participle agree ...

Exercise 4 Translate into Italian. 1 Sabina hasn’t invited me [f]. 2 Who called you [fs]? 3 We phoned them yesterday. 4 I looked ...

UNIT FOURTEEN Direct and indirect object pronouns (3: stressed forms) 1 Direct and indirect object pronouns do not only have the ...

Note the difference between the two sentences ‘Non mi piace il caffè’ and ‘A me non piace il caffè’. The first simply states tha ...

6 Stressed forms are always used after anche/pure (also, too), neanche/ nemmeno/neppure (not even, neither), come (as, like), qu ...

7 Carla vuole bene a (me) quanto a (you [sing.]). 8 A (you [polite]) credo, Professore. 9 Voglio presentare i miei amici anche a ...

Exercise 4 Translate into Italian, using the stressed form of the pronouns: 1 Everyone’s against me! 2 Are you [sing.] coming wi ...

UNIT FIFTEEN Relative pronouns 1 The Italian relative pronouns correspond to the English ‘who’, ‘which’, ‘that’, ‘whom’, ‘whose’ ...

In Italian, collective nouns (e.g. il gruppo, ‘the group’, la squadra, ‘the squad/team’) are always followed by the singular of ...

Remember to combine the definite article with the preposition (see Unit 8, paragraph 2) when using the variable forms. 5 When ...

7 When referring to people, the pronoun chi (who, anyone who, the person/ people who) is often used instead of the more formal ‘ ...

3 I bambini —— sono venuti sono i miei cugini. 4 Non conosco le persone con —— esci. 5 La torta —— ha fatto tua mamma è molto bu ...

9 Le amiche di cui ti ho parlato arrivano domani. 10 I nostri amici, che sono tutti italiani, non parlano inglese. Exercise 4 Su ...