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The words ci, vi and ne act both as personal pronouns (respectively instrumental and genitive case) and clitic pro-forms for "there" (ci and vi, with identical meaning—as in c'è, ci sono, v'è, vi sono, ci vengo, etc.) and "from there" (ne—as in: è entrato in casa alle 10:00 e ne è uscito alle 11:00).
Italian verbs have a high degree of inflection, the majority of which follows one of three common patterns of conjugation. Italian conjugation is affected by mood, person, tense, number, aspect and occasionally gender. The three classes of verbs (patterns of conjugation) are distinguished by the endings of the infinitive form of the verb:
Standard Italian would be: Eh, compare, ci vuoi suonare (could you play for us). In Sicilian, compare become cumpari, very common in Sicilian and the far South, which usually means a very close family friend, or it can be a form of greeting to someone from your village, similar to Hey, paesano!
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Là ci darem la mano" (Italian for "There we will give each other our hands") is a duet for the characters Don Giovanni and Zerlina in Mozart's 1787 opera Don Giovanni (act 1, scene 9). Text [ edit ]
The Italian academic Massimo Fusillo, professor of literary criticism and comparative literature at the University of L'Aquila, for a brief part of his life was also a classicist and argued that the previous students of liceo classico who enroll in classics university courses "basically start from the beginning".
Regional Italian (Italian: italiano regionale, pronounced [itaˈljaːno redʒoˈnaːle]) is any regional [note 1] variety of the Italian language.. Such vernacular varieties and standard Italian exist along a sociolect continuum, and are not to be confused with the local non-immigrant languages of Italy [note 2] that predate the national tongue or any regional variety thereof.
"Ci sarà" (Italian for "There Will Be") is a song by Italian duo Al Bano and Romina Power, released in 1984. It was met with an international commercial success and remains one of their best-known hits. The duo performed the song at the 1984 Sanremo Music Festival, and won gathering over 2 million votes. [2]