ITLN 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Violin, Suona, Piccolo

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Italian Language and Literature
• Course: ITLN 112
• Professor: Brigitte Eleonore Bachmann

Document Summary

Lei (you formal) lui (him) lei (her) s (yourself, himself, herself, oneself - reflexive) noi (us) voi (you plural) Loro (you plural formal) loro (them) s (yourselves, themselves - also reflexive) Questo libro per te. (this book is for you. ) Siamo usciti con loro. (we went out with them. ) After a verb to give the direct or indirect object greater emphasis. Cercavo te. (i was looking for you. : after a verb to distinguish between multiple objects. Marcello pi alto di me. (marcello is taller than me. ) Loro sono meno paurosi di noi. (they are less fearful than us. ) In italian, you use the definite article (il, la, etc. ) It is added right before the term you"re describing as being the most or least. e. g. : e" la ragazza piu" bella del mondo. By adding -issimo to the end of a word it is stating that it possesses a quality to the extreme degree.