15 Minute Italian: Learn in Just 12 Weeks (Eyewitness Travel 15-Minute)

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Alessia. You may recognise this Italian girls’ name from the English name Alexis, which has Greek origins and means ‘helper’ or ‘defender’. It's actually a unisex baby name so you could also use this for a baby boy.

Sapere is often confused with the verb conoscere (to know). They seem the same, but before you try to use them both, it’s important to get the differences down. Mangiare Hai troppe cose. – “You have too many things.” Cose can mean both “things” and “matters”, and in this sentence, it’s the former. Agostina. Based on the Roman name Augustus, which became famous throughout the Christian world after Roman emperor Caesar Augustus, Agostina is the diminutive of the female name Agosta. If you want to have a conversation in Italian but you’re afraid you don’t have the words to do it, just start talking about food. Italians love to talk about food, and they barely go a day without some conversation about gamberi (shrimp), bistecche (steaks) or pasta al forno (lasagna).It would be hard to find a verb more versatile than fare. This verb, which translates as both “make” and “do,” covers almost any physical or creative activity that you could imagine. Here are just a few ways you can use fare to enrich your speaking practice: When proprio is a possessive adjective, it is used instead of suo/a and loro and only when it refers to something that belongs to the subject of the sentence: Ognuno porta il proprio cuaderno. (“Everyone brings their own notebook.”)

Cecchettin’s older sister, Elena, has responded to sympathetic media portrayals of Turetta by accusing him instead of controlling and possessive behaviour. Turetta’s lawyer did not reply to a request for comment.There are two additional Italian possessive adjectives which don’t have evident equivalents in English: Cinzia. In English, this name is Cynthia and is Greek in origin. It means ‘woman from Kynthos’, a mountain where the Greek goddess Artemis was born along with her twin, the god Apollo.