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Learn Italian online with our series of free Italian lessons! Each lesson contains links to an explanation of the grammar, plus practice exercises and audio material recorded by native speakers. This is lesson 12 and covers the impersonal form with ‘si’.
SI is an impersonal pronoun meaning “one” (someone). Let’s learn how to use the impersonal SI correctly in Italian.
In this lesson you will study the impersonal form with ‘si’, which is more or less the Italian equivalent of the passive form in English. For example, in English: In Bologna people eat a lot of meat. (active form) In Bologna a lot of meat is eaten. (passive form) The same effect is achieved in Italian using the “impersonal si” and the ...
Learn the Italian impersonal form of the verb to be with this free online Italian grammar lesson: 'La forma impersonale con essere'.
In Italian, all verbs have the impersonal forms – both transitive and intransitive ones. Bases on the context, we can use the following constructions. si or uno + verb in 3 rd person singular; For Example: A Natale si mangia il panettone – (For Christmas you eat panettone)
26 Απρ 2020 · How and When to use the “SI impersonale” in Italian. Il SI impersonale is used to talk, in a detached manner, about events or situations involving an indefinite and nonspecific subject (all the people) and it’s used both in spoken and written language (but it’s used more in this last case).
The impersonal form expresses general actions, common to lots of people. All the verbs, both transitive and intransitive, have impersonal forms. To form it, we use: si or uno + verb at the 3rd singular person. A Pasqua si mangia l'uovo di cioccolato At Easter one eats chocolate eggs. In biblioteca si legge, si studia e si parla a bassa voce At ...
