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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.
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’.
Whenever we want to express general actions that are common to everyone, we can use the impersonal form. 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 3rd person singular.
In Italian, pronominal verbs that end in “-sela” or “-sene” always require the auxiliary verb “essere” in compound tenses. Consequently, the past participle agrees with the pronoun or subject, as shown in the following examples.
SI is an impersonal pronoun meaning “one” (someone). Let’s learn how to use the impersonal SI correctly in Italian.
20 Οκτ 2022 · The pronouns that can be added to a verb and make it pronominal are a few: si, ci, la, le, ne. When those pronouns are combined, si changes into se and ci changes into ce, so there are forms like sela ( si + la ), cela ( ci + la ), sene ( si + ne ), cene ( ci + ne ).
In Italian, we have a simple way to make a generalization or to make a sentence where the subject is not specified: the impersonal form. The impersonal form is made up by: si + any verb conjugated in the 3rd person singular. Example: In Italia, si mangia bene. In Italy, we generally eat good food.
