Colloquial Italian by Lymbery Sylvia

Author:Lymbery, Sylvia
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)

Vocabulary

sorella maggiore elder sister

qualche anno fa some years ago

questa sorella è morta this sister died

le fa vedere shows her

Language Points

maggiore, minore

As well as meaning ‘bigger’, maggiore is also used to mean ‘elder’, referring to brothers and sisters. minore means ‘younger’.

Using morire, nascere

morire (past participle: morto) ‘to die’ is irregular, as is nascere (past participle nato) ‘to be born’. Both verbs form the passato prossimo with essere:

E’ morto il presidente. Anna è nata nel 1954.

The president has died. Anna was born in 1954.

nel ‘in’

Notice you say nel 1967 ‘in 1967’, as in the example above, nel 1954. You always do this for ‘in’ with a year.

Exercise 1

Use the information in this family tree to complete the paragraph below.

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