Indefinite Articles in Italian

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  • Опубликовано: 5 фев 2018
  • What's an indefinite article? Well there was one in that sentence! We have to learn these little words before we get on to the big ones, so check this out!
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Комментарии • 54

  • @deleciawoods4777
    @deleciawoods4777 6 лет назад +24

    Hey Professor Dave! Your mom is my professor at Western Connecticut State! She should definitely be in one of your videos, she’s a sweetheart. Thanks for your Italian help!

    • @farinap2000
      @farinap2000 6 лет назад +4

      Maybe some day, Delecia... but I guarantee you, Dave is doing a great job!

  • @tammietucker8847
    @tammietucker8847 5 лет назад +10

    Your lessons are so clear and helpful. I truly appreciate how you explain things and make grammar points easy to understand. Thank you so much!!!!!

  • @potatohead3025
    @potatohead3025 6 лет назад +14

    Your way of explaning is just great! I can watch this all day !

  • @monkeytheman7424
    @monkeytheman7424 2 года назад +1

    this video is 4 years old yet still helped me out a lot, thanks!!!

  • @EarlBaldbear
    @EarlBaldbear 4 года назад +8

    No feminine nouns beginning with "s impura" or "z"? What about una scuola? Una speranza? Una scala? Una zia? Una zaffira?

  • @filippa6839
    @filippa6839 2 года назад +8

    I'm so happy i got them all right !! Your lessons are really helpful! I'm learning italian because i love learning languages and i love italian food, italian music, the culture, everything! And my mum promised me we're going to italy if i learn almost fluent italian and i think im going in the right direction! I learnt english and spanish pretty easily so i hope the Italian will work out for me as well (I'm 15 years old and from Sweden btw)

  • @gethnoble4316
    @gethnoble4316 Год назад +1

    Wow, questa spiegazione è incredibilmente chiara! Grazie mille

  • @masinahsahid3873
    @masinahsahid3873 2 года назад

    Grazie mille Prof Dave!

  • @alezioneconale
    @alezioneconale 2 года назад

    Grazie mille, ottimo video!

  • @heheburped3088
    @heheburped3088 3 года назад

    THANK YOU, YOU'RE SAVING ME FROM FAILING

  • @KingsSkater
    @KingsSkater Месяц назад

    Perfecto 💯

  • @ARTDEVGRU247
    @ARTDEVGRU247 Год назад

    Bro this guy teaches everything. Last place I would've expected him to be is when I looked up stuff for my Italian class 😂😂

  • @aliceinbath2850
    @aliceinbath2850 4 года назад +2

    Loved this lesson. Thankyou

  • @Metruzanca
    @Metruzanca 3 года назад +4

    This is such a weird thing for me to be asking, as a native speaker, but I'm pretty sure theres exceptions to the "no feminine special sounds words" rule and a good example being the female version of Student. But I think the rule here is that the root is still masculine. So to fit the examples at ~2:40: "Uno studente" and "Una studentessa".
    Also, i really have 0 recollection of "special sounds" being taught to me.
    I'm really only skimming thru here to see dave explain verbs hahahaha.... I bet it will be funny. Verbs are mess in italian.

  • @ibrahimdiriye5607
    @ibrahimdiriye5607 2 года назад

    ▪︎Thanks professor Dave for your Italian help !

  • @ronen44444447
    @ronen44444447 Год назад

    I loved the waiter exercise in the end!

  • @aliceguitarart418
    @aliceguitarart418 3 года назад

    I'm italian and I have to say his pronunciation is quite good

  • @prahlad7210
    @prahlad7210 3 года назад

    Thank you for the great video:)

  • @rajeshmulla8900
    @rajeshmulla8900 4 года назад +1

    Great teacher.... Dear Dave

  • @ArmyHumveeLaat
    @ArmyHumveeLaat Год назад

    and what about an artical for plural? Or there are no articles for plural undefined things in italian

  • @mightyhudson1193
    @mightyhudson1193 4 года назад +2

    Thanks Dave. You should sell a PDF of your Italian charts. I like it better than the book we are using in school.

    • @richfratello8181
      @richfratello8181 4 года назад +1

      There are many ways you can help prof Dave: through patreon.com and through watching the whole short Google ads. Grazie tanto.

  • @Joeythegoats
    @Joeythegoats 2 года назад

    grazie mille. Io capito questa video.

  • @dilshan5384
    @dilshan5384 Год назад

    Hello professor dave. Can you tell me how did you choose words like cognac, tiramisu`, te` as masculine words?

    • @ProfessorDaveExplains
      @ProfessorDaveExplains  Год назад +1

      i did not choose anything, those qualities are assigned.

    • @dilshan5384
      @dilshan5384 Год назад

      I mean Is there a way to tell those words( cognac,te`) are masculine or feminine Or do we have to memorize its gender?

    • @ProfessorDaveExplains
      @ProfessorDaveExplains  Год назад +1

      Yes unfortunately for words like these there is nothing you can do other than simply memorize the gender assigned to the specific word.

    • @dilshan5384
      @dilshan5384 Год назад

      @@ProfessorDaveExplains Thank you professor dave for the explanation. Your tutorials are so helpful.❤

  • @ahlexender
    @ahlexender Год назад +1

    Wait, I'm confused by the criteria of "special sound", how is studente a special sound? S is a consonant, so why is it uno and not un?

    • @jayhabstudios
      @jayhabstudios 2 месяца назад

      A year late, but the special sound he's referring to is "s + any consonant," in this case, _st._ If it were just _s_ on its own, it would use _un._ There are other special sounds, and they are _ps, pn, gn, x, y_ and _z._

  • @alishaalfardan2134
    @alishaalfardan2134 2 года назад

    Could someone please explain it to me what this special sound thing is??

  • @99flutter
    @99flutter 4 года назад +1

    til why my italian friend had to take a minute to stop laughing/cringing at me saying "uno mese"

  • @quantaali543
    @quantaali543 6 лет назад +2

    amazing

  • @Haggaichisala
    @Haggaichisala 10 месяцев назад

    Sorry, but how do I know which one is a special sound word?

    • @ProfessorDaveExplains
      @ProfessorDaveExplains  10 месяцев назад +1

      Check the tutorial on special sound, it depends on how the word starts.

  • @Orca-stra
    @Orca-stra 8 месяцев назад +1

    is "una scarpa" not an example of a feminine special sound word?
    or did you mean that it's irrelevant because it stays as "una" anyway, so it's just the same as any other feminine noun?

    • @calicographs4913
      @calicographs4913 7 дней назад

      The reason why we have "special sounds" are cause of the hard sounds, saying in scarpa with 3 consonants (nsc) is tricky so we had a vowel to make it easier to flow, As Una for female already has a vowel ending, we don't need another letter for it, hope this helps ❤

  • @La123x
    @La123x 4 года назад +1

    What is a special sound

    • @ProfessorDaveExplains
      @ProfessorDaveExplains  4 года назад +3

      go earlier in the series, there is a tutorial specifically explaining that

    • @La123x
      @La123x 4 года назад +1

      @@ProfessorDaveExplains thanks professor! i saw "una spremuta" written in a book for learning italian.. would that be wrong? should it be uno spremuta?

    • @warrior8942
      @warrior8942 4 года назад +1

      @@La123x look at the ending it ends with a so it feminine

  • @miarossievans7815
    @miarossievans7815 2 года назад

    i got forced by my italian teacher to watch this during online

  • @arotrace
    @arotrace Год назад

    The only engish word that I know of that starts with a vowel but uses the article "a" is European considering it is pronounced "yur-uh-PEE-uhn"

  • @Brunowerther
    @Brunowerther 3 года назад

    What about the plural?

    • @Mhyllles
      @Mhyllles 9 месяцев назад

      The nouns will change

  • @aria7883
    @aria7883 4 года назад +1

    but what's considered feminine or masculine if it's an object or animal??? like orange, why is it considered feminine if it's inanimate

    • @xwtek3505
      @xwtek3505 3 года назад +1

      It's arbitrary. You just have to memorize it word by word.

  • @yeisonsamayoa6081
    @yeisonsamayoa6081 Год назад

    Molto Gracie

  • @Riborwahz
    @Riborwahz 7 месяцев назад

    You did it bettet man im jealous

  • @notmyrealname121
    @notmyrealname121 2 года назад +1

    Dude, Maybe its because the camera cuts off just above your waste, but i can definately see your arms move each time you speak italian. Zoom out bro... you cant speak italian without using your hands..