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32. What A Beautiful Morning

March 27th, 2006

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What A Beautiful Morning

Giovanna (aka Jane) is definitely a daytime person. She likes early morning best, and the earlier, the better. Massimo, ehm… the opposite. In today’s lesson, we are going to learn and conjugate verbs ending in “ire”, like “dormire” (to sleep) and some useful expression we can use to describe people’s habits. Are you a nighttime or daytime person?

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6 Responses to "32. What A Beautiful Morning"

Tama Says:

March 28th, 2006 at 7:50 pm

hahaha great!!, hmm nightime or morning person depends nel weekend sono dormigliona during the week mi sveglio alle 05:00 haha
im loving the pod casts!! keep it up!!

Steve Says:

February 17th, 2008 at 3:22 am

Is there a reason why you say mattino vs. mattina?

David Tanner Says:

February 17th, 2008 at 7:53 pm

Could you tell me the literal Italian translation of “si alza” and “mi alzo” and “ti alzi” in this lesson? What is the root word that these conjugations come from?

LearnItalianPod.com Says:

February 17th, 2008 at 9:42 pm

@Steve
mattino and mattina are both correct, very common and used with the same meaning - morning.

@David
The verb is “alzarsi” (to get up, to rise), it’s a reflexive verb and requires a reflexive pronoun. Literal translations: “I get myself up, you get yourself up, he/she gets herself up”, etc.

lucy Says:

May 29th, 2008 at 9:11 pm

ciao! if i conjugate the other verbs you mention here, would it be: noi sentiamo, voi sentite, loro sentono.
noi apriamo, voi aprite, loro aprono.

is that right? the loro ones look so strange!

LearnItalianPod.com Says:

May 30th, 2008 at 9:19 pm

Lucy, that is right.

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