A guide to the structure and use of the
Italian Language
A text written by
Joseph Martin Carro
ISBN 978-1-389-51663-2
January 2024 version VI©
jcarro@charter.net
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 – Pronunciation
Words
The Italian Alphabet
Pronunciation of the alphabet
Letter combinations
Consonants
Vowels
Chapter 2 – Nouns and Gender
Gender
Singular and Plural forms
Chapter 3 – Modifiers
All about the –ly forms
Taking descriptions to a higher level
Chapter 4 – All about the
A guide to the contractions of articles and prepositions
How about a?
Chapter 5 – Pronouns
The Subject Pronouns
The Stress Pronouns
The Object Pronouns
The Indirect Pronouns
Using Pronouns Together
I did it myself
Chapter 6 – Expressing Possession
Chapter 7 – A guide to Italian verbs
The “to” form of a verb
Chapter 8 – The Imperfect Past Tense
Chapter 9 – The “ing” form of verbs
Chapter 10 – The Future Tense
Chapter 11 – The Conditional Tense
Chapter 12 – The Present Tense
Chapter 13 – The Simple Past Tense
Chapter 14 – Expressing Uncertainty; Giving Orders
Expressing uncertainty
Giving orders
Chapter 15 – Speculating about things
Chapter 16 – The Formation of Compound Verbs
Chapter 17 – Past forms of the verbs
Chapter 18 – Myself, Yourself, and so on
Chapter 19 – Active or Passive?
Chapter 20 – Speaking indirectly
Chapter 21 – Getting to Know You
Chapter 22 – The Small Words
The Word too
The Word yet
And – Or?
The Italian Word già
The Italian Word ne
The Italian Word ci
Chapter 23 – Who, What, This, That
Chapter 24 – Italian Prepositions
24-1 a to contro 24-2 da to difronte 24-3 dopo to oltre 24-4 per to sopra 24-5 sotto to vicinoAppendices
A. The structure of the Italian verb system
B. Pronunciation of verbs in group 1 (-are)
C. The Pronouns
D. Words which end in -ìo
E. Word pronunciation patterns
F. Some Proverbs
G. The numbers
H. Past participles of verbs ending in –ere and –rre
I. Table of useful information
J. Italian Conjunctions
Bibliography
Chapter 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24-1 24-2 24-3 24-4 24-5 Appendix A B C D E F G H I J
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