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Passato prossimo page

Andrew Turner — Mon, 07 May 2012 14:40:06 +0000

I have now populated the passato prossimo page with examples for all of the exemplar verbs. If you have any suggestions / can spot any errors; per favore, fammi sapere – theplodder (chioccola) gmail.com.

Now … on to the future, or il futuro, come si dovrebbe dire!

Imperfetto di cortesia

Andrew Turner — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:59:51 +0000

I have added the imperfetto di cortesia to the imperfetto indicativo page.

Imperfetto indicativo

Andrew Turner — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 14:09:07 +0000

I’ve now completed the page for the imperfetto including dozens of examples – it can be found here.

If you find any small mistakes, or indeed any howlers, please fammi sapere. And if you have any suggestions for improvements to this page or others, again please make contact.

Postscript: I have now made some changes to the imperfetto page as a result of some suggestions. These include the use of the heading ARCHETYPAL REGULAR VERBS instead of MODEL REGULAR VERBS. Archetypal is a little more wordy a word than model but, as it was pointed out, it would be easy to confuse model with modal – and we wouldn’t want that!

Two fronts

Andrew Turner — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 09:17:45 +0000

I’m advancing on (at least) two fronts! I want to get a decent page up for the imperfetto so I can do some revision on this tense over Easter. But also I’ve decided to put a page up showing the all of the tenses / moods used in Italian and how they are interlinked. The pages are both up now and have a fair amount of content on them – I hope to finish them over the next few days.

As usual, if you spot any mistakes, fammi sapere!

Passato prossimo

Andrew Turner — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 06:14:46 +0000

I’ve added page, this time for the passato prossimo. I still need to populate it with examples but it is nearly complete.

If you spot any mistakes, can suggest any improvements, feel free to email me – theplodder(chiocciola)gmail.com

Adjectives – agreement

Andrew Turner — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 06:59:17 +0000

I’ve written the first page, Adjectives – agreement. This page covers the rules for making adjectives agree with the nouns they describe.

If you spot any mistakes, can suggest any improvements, feel free to email me – theplodder(chiocciola)gmail.com

Hello world!

Andrew Turner — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 07:10:26 +0000

Welcome to italissimo. This website is a way of forcing me to keep my Italian grammar notes in some kind of order and easily accessible. I thought that I would publish it on the web because 1. I’m always in the browser and 2. others might find it useful too.

This website does, however, come with a very big caveat – there may be many errors on the site. I’m not a native Italian speaker, I’m not a trained linguist; I’m a plodder and I enjoy plodding away at the Italian language. You have been warned!

That said, I will try to minimise the mistakes and if you find this website useful, you can help me in this endeavour. If you spot a mistake and would like to see it corrected, please email me – theplodder(chiocciola)gmail.com . If I’m wrong and you are right, a likely scenario, I’ll be pleased to make the amendment.

At the time of writing (day 1) there is very little content on the site but lots of pages with in costruzione notices. This is because, before I got going, I wanted to lay out the structure of the site. So, I now have sections for all the joys of Italian grammar – nouns (including their articles), pronouns, adjectives, conjunctions, prepositions, verbs (and verb conjugations) and adverbs. I plan to populate these sections with my Italian grammar notes as time goes by. And I will use these blog posts to announce each new page as it is written.

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