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'di questi tempi' o 'in questi tempi' e perché?
Spesso sento dire 'di questi tempi non ci si può lamentare'.
Sapreste dire perché si usa 'di' piuttosto che 'in'?
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Is there a tense for future perfect?
Is there anything wrong with these sentences?
Vorrò essere andato a scuola.
Vorrò andare a scuola.
How do you render the future perfect tense in Italian?
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'tangentopoli', 'concorsopoli', 'sanitopoli', and so on
I observed that Italian journalists use to coin new words using the suffix '-poli', as in tangentopoli, sanitopoli, concorsopoli and so on.
I cannot think of a case in which those new words, which are conied day-by-day in reference to limitless…
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Why was the "-ista" suffix used for traditionally male jobs? Is it correct to use "-isto" variant?
How come the feminine sounding suffix -ista is used for referring jobs such as autista, commercialista, economista, giurista, and apprendista?
I think that when the words for these jobs were originally created, they were predominantly practiced by…
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Does the name "Alfero" mean anything?
I know some people who use it as a first name and others who use it as a last name. There is also a place in Italy called Castell'Alfero which I understand to mean "The castle of Alfero".
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How was the double meaning/use of "prego" in the sequence "prego-grazie-prego" born?
How come in Italian the same word is used to express the action of offering/inviting and afterwards to respond to the person who thanked you. What's the origin of it and how come the verb "to pray" is used for this?
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Maiuscola per gli aggettivi con riferimento ad una regione (pianura lombarda, autostrada veneta, Alto Milanese)
Volevo capire l'utilizzo della maiuscola sugli aggettivi che fanno riferimento ad un nome di un luogo, nella fattispecie: una regione.
Per esempio io scriverei "autostrada veneta" e non "autostrada Veneta", oppure "pianura lombarda" e non "pianura…
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Is "senza A e B" acceptable?
It seems that "senza A e B" is not acceptable in the Italian language, but "senza A o B" is.
Can anyone explain why?
As far as I can tell, I often hear people saying, for example:
Sono venuto senza giacca e cravatta.
Questi alimenti sono senza…
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Why "del mattino / pomeriggio" but "di sera" for time of day?
The learning resources I'm using suggest the following formats to state the time of day (emphasis mine):
Le undici del mattino
Le due del pomeriggio
Le nove di sera
Why do mattino / pomeriggio use the definite article ("del") but sera does not…
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Pronunciation of "grazie"?
When I was learning a bit of Italian before my first trip there, I learned that "grazie" was pronounced with three syllables, the final syllable like a quick long a sound (in English). However, when there, I never heard that, but heard "grazi" (two…
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When to use 'visti'?
I came across the following text in an Italian course: 'Ti ho lasciato qualche messaggio. Non li hai visti?'
I don't understand where the word 'visti' comes from. I don't see it in any conjugation tables. Why is it not 'visto'?
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Cosa significa 'fare la punta agli aghi'?
I simply want to know what the idiom 'fare la punta agli aghi' actually means....if you can help me. I've been searching but can't find it anywhere.
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Perché il suffisso '-accia/-accio' connota negativamente le parole cui viene aggiunto?
Credo che il suffisso -accia / -accio sia usato sempre per connotare negativamente qualcosa, per esempio: roba e robaccia, parola e parolaccia, donna e donnaccia e così via.
Sapreste indicare quali siano le origini storiche che hanno determinato…
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Why 'dimenticata' is used instead of 'dimenticato'
Recently, I´ve been listening to Laura Pausini´s song Scatola and there is a sentence in the lyrics that I don´t really understand from a gramatical point of view.
In the very middle of the song she says Ma io non ti ho dimenticata instead of Ma io…
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Perché la presenza di "non" in questa frase?
Qualche settimana fa ho provato a tradurre una frase che mi sembrava abbastanza complicata;
It would have taken him longer than he had been alive.
La traduzione era
Ci sarebbe voluto più tempo di quanto non fosse stato vivo.
Si vede che, nella…
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