I want to say "I spent the whole day yesterday learning Italian"
ieri sto passai tutto il giorno imparare l'italiano
This is my first attempt in forming a complete sentence, probably fill with silly mistakes. Thanks!
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Sign up to join this communityI want to say "I spent the whole day yesterday learning Italian"
ieri sto passai tutto il giorno imparare l'italiano
This is my first attempt in forming a complete sentence, probably fill with silly mistakes. Thanks!
The correct sentence would be:
Ieri ho passato tutto il giorno a imparare l’italiano.
using the passato prossimo verbal form.
As correctly reported by @egreg, in some varieties of Italian (Sicilian, for instance) the passato remoto would be used, because ieri is a completed span of time.
So the sentence in this case would be:
Ieri passai tutto il giorno a imparare l’italiano.