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Capitolo II
Question | Answer |
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avere caldo | to be warm |
avere fame | to be hungry |
avere freddo | to be cold |
avere fretta | to be in a hurry |
avere paura | to be afraid |
avere ragione | to be right |
avere sete | to be thirsty |
avere sonno | to be sleepy |
avere bisogno di | to need |
avere voglia di | to want |
avere + ---- + anni | ----= number of years you've been alive together the words express age |
conjugate present tense of avere! | ho hai ha abbiamo avete hanno |
alto | tall |
anziano | old |
basso | short (in height) |
bello | beautiful |
biondo | blond |
bruno | dark (hair) |
brutto | ugly |
corto | short (in length) |
giovane | young |
grande | big |
grasso | fat |
liscio | straight (hair) *masculine plural= lisci |
lungo | long *masculine plural= lunghi |
magro | thin |
piccolo | small |
riccio | curly *masculine plural= ricci |
vecchio | old *masculine plural= vecchi |
americano | American |
canadese | Canadian |
cinese | Chinese |
francese | French |
giapponese | Japanese |
inglese | English |
irlandese | Irish |
italiano | Italian |
messicano | Mexican |
russo | Russian |
spagnolo | Spanish |
tedesco | German |
azzurro | blue |
bianco | white *masculine plural=bianchi |
castano | brown (hair/eyes) |
giallo | yellow |
grigio | gray *plural= grigi |
nero | black |
rosso | red |
verde | green |
allegro | cheerful |
antipatico | unfriendly |
arrabbiato | angry |
bravo | good |
bugiardo | deceitful |
cattivo | mean |
divertente | entertaining |
energico | energetic |
estroverso | extroverted |
gentile | kind |
intelligente | intelligent |
responsabile | responsible |
irresponsabile | irresponsible |
nervoso | nervous |
noioso | boring |
onesto | honest |
orgoglioso | proud |
pigro | lazy |
sensibile | sensitive |
simpatico | nice |
sportivo | athletic |
stanco | tired |
stressato | stressed |
tranquillo | calm |
triste | sad |
masculine plural ending for adjective | -i |
feminine plural ending for adjective | -e |
m/f ending for adjective | -i |
adjectives ending in -ca, -ga, and -go add -- when becoming plural | --= h ex. bianca to bianche |
Com'e? | what is he/she like? |
Come sono? | what are they like? |
Conjugation of essere in present tense | sono sei e siamo siete sono |
masculine definite articles. answer with singular and plural. before noun beginning with consonant... before noun beginning with consonantal cluster... before noun beginning with a vowel... | il-i lo-gli l'-gli |
feminine definite articles. before noun beginning with a consonant... before noun beginning with a vowel... | la-le l'-le |
M singular: bel | plural: bei |
M singular: bell' | plural: begli |
M singular: bello | plural: begli |
F singular: bella | plural: belle |
F singular: bell' | plural: belle |
bel is used before... | consonants |
bell' is used before... | vowels |
bello is used before... | consonantal clusters |
bella is used before... | consonants |
bell' is used before... | vowels |
marrone | brown |
antico | ancient |
bravo | good |
carino | pretty |
caro | expensive |
cinese | Chinese |
disordinato | messy |
grande | big |
sicuro | secure |
insicuro | insecure |
largo | wide |
molto | much |
altro | another |
nuovo | new |
orgoglioso | proud |
povero | poor |
ricco | rich |