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'mettila' o 'mettilala'
Nel caso di "fascicolala" il verbo è "fascicolare", imperativo "fascicola" + pronome "la", risultato "fascicolala".
Nel caso di "mettila" il verbo è "mettere", imperativo "metti" + pronome "la", ...
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"Chiunque altro" oppure "qualunque altro"?
Intanto, "qualunque altro" da solo non si potrebbe dire, perché "qualunque" è un aggettivo e non un pronome, a differenza di "chiunque".
In questo caso, poi, si sta confrontando quella ricerca con ...
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The use of ci when specifying locations
In the first answer, ci is moto a luogo (motion to), whereas in the second answer ne is moto da luogo (motion from).
If you expand them, you get
No, non sono andato a Parigi
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Sì, sono ...
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The use of "ne" in a sentence
In currently spoken Italian, the pronoun io would be omitted in this case, but it's not the main aspect of the question.
In the sentence
me ne sono ricordato
the verb is ricordarsi which is not, ...
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Quando si usano "egli", "ella", "esso", "essa", "essi", "esse" invece di "lui", "lei" o "loro"?
Egli, ella, essi ed esse, come suggerisce Google Ngram, sono stati quasi completamente rimpiazzati da lui, lei e loro, tuttavia è possibile utilizzarli in contesti molto formali, oppure se si desidera ...
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The 'Lo' in "Lo faccio subito."
It's the equivalent for "I do it immediately" or "I do that immediately"; in the same way lo vedo is the equivalent for "I see it" or "I see that."
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Is it necessary to use pronouns with the verb "essere"?
No, it is not necessary to use personal pronouns with any verb, in particular not with the verb essere. Using a technical language we can say that Italian is a "null-subject" language.
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Is it necessary to use pronouns with the verb "essere"?
Your teacher is wrong and your examples are perfect.
The subject pronoun can be used, for emphasis or for marking distinctions: I would say
Io sono italiano, lei è catalana.
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"Quello" or "quel"? What is the difference?
You can't say "Non ho detto quel".
When quello is used as a pronoun, only the form quello is possible.
When it is used as an adjective, you must follow the same rule used for the articles il/lo. Il ->...
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The use of "ciò" in a sentence
It is a masculine pronoun, only singular, and it indicates or replaces the noun of a thing, generally referred as a verb or a phrase, it can be both subject and complement.
It has neutral value and ...
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Does "nessuno" translate to "no one" or "anyone"?
Yes, double negatives are grammatical, and common, in Italian.
See on this monolingual dictionary, for instance:
Se posposto al verbo, è di solito rafforzato da altra negazione (non, né, senza, ecc.)....
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Signora or Signorina when marriage status unknown
Probably neither. Since in Italian whoever as a laurea (the lowest universitary degree) is entitled to be called dottore, or dottoressa for a female, chances are that whoever holds a high-level post ...
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The use of the form "mi sa che mi" is consider correct proper Italian?
When I scan the sentence I see no mi sa che mi, I have mi sa <subordinate clause> and if <subordinate clause> happens to contain mi, this doesn't tell me there is or there should be any ...
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Perché "voi" è usato quando si parla con solo una persona?
Si chiamano allocutivi di cortesia. Per rivolgersi ad altre persone si usano pronomi a seconda del contesto o dell'età (un tempo anche dell'importanza sociale).
Il Lei e il Voi si utilizzano ora ...
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Dropping Demonstrative Pronouns
You can either use the demonstrative or not, but we don’t usually use “quello”: we use ”questo”, and above all “’sto”, the aphaeretic form of “questo” common in everyday, informal speech and in ...
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Which pronoun for formal second person plural?
Short answer: it's really uncommon to use loro in this case. You may want to use voi even in a formal conversation.
Why? I don't really know. Perhaps, because voi was used in the past for the plurale ...
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Why is it said "la pensi così" and not "lo pensi così"?
The simple answer is that this is an idiomatic form, and that la penso/i/... così is a standard way to say, more or less, “this is my opinion”.
To go deeper, in situation like this, la can be ...
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Why always "Lei" instead of "lui" in formal speech, irrespective of addressee's sex?
According to La Grammatica Italiana, by the Istituto Treccani
Until the fourteenth century the system of allocutive pronouns was composed only by tu and voi as a form of respect. The first ...
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Does Italian have a demonstrative pronoun for 2nd person?
Sounds like you are looking for codesto, nowadays rarely used outside of Tuscany:
codésto (o cotésto) agg. e pron. dimostr. [lat. eccu(m) tibi iste]. – Indica persona o cosa vicina a chi ascolta, o ...
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Sull'uso di "gli" come terza persona plurale del pronome personale complemento di termine
Oltre al già citato Treccani, anche la Crusca lo riconosce:
Per riassumere, l'uso di gli in luogo di loro, a loro, a essi e a esse
è da considerare senz'altro corretto (Ora vado dai tuoi amici e ...
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Dammelo vs dallome
In italiano moderno, il complemento di termine precede il complemento oggetto nei pronomi accoppiati. Si dice me lo, te ne, glielo, ecc.
La coppia di pronomi di norma precede il verbo; segue invece il ...
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"Dammi un bacio": How to construct "dammi" from "dare"?
Dammi is simply the usual unified form for da' (or dai), the second person singular imperative of the verb dare (= “to give”), and the pronoun mi, that is, a me (= “to me”). All in all, dammi is just “...
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Uso delle particelle pronominali in frasi col verbo essere
La traduzione proposta inizialmente è inequivocabilmente sbagliata:
Ho visto un pesce, e questo era tu.
A parte l'uso insolito di "questo" (sembra un anglicismo), le uniche traduzioni giuste ...
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'Grazie a te' o 'Ti grazie'?
In ti amo, ti is the direct object. It is not changeable into amo a te, but only into amo te (the same as the English “I love you”).
In grazie a te there is an implicit verb: (dico) grazie a te. In ...
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Is there any implicit or idiomatic difference between "gli" and "lo" used as a clitic pronoun?
There is indeed a big difference: one is used for the direct object and the other is used for the indirect object. Those are different grammatical roles and using one for the other is a serious ...
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Help me understand the word "spiegargliele"
Your translation is correct, and your assumption about "gli" is correct, too. This kind of suffix formed with a pronoun in Italian is called clitico.
The whole phrase becomes:
"Bisogna sempre" = it ...
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Meaning of "che ne so che me stai a di' la verità?"
Ne is used in this context as "pronome personale" (personal pronoun). It means "di ciò" ("of this {topic/person/whatever}").
Che ne so is a very common spoken expression meaning what/how would I know ...
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"Sbagliare": non-reflexive vs reflexive usage
The differences are subtle, IMHO, and this is by no means a complete answer. However, I will list common situations where these expressions are used, and how it can often be confusing.
The two can in ...
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"Gli diede tutto il suo denaro." Why does this start with the article 'gli'?
As you can see in the VIVIT website, from Accademia della Crusca, the word "gli" in Italian is not only an article: it's also an indirect object personal pronoun.
This is the case in your ...
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When to use "guardarci" vs "guardare"
This -ci particle just means “with it”, “in it” and the like. (It is not to be confused with the homonymous -ci meaning “to us”, as in Devi darci una risposta, “You have to give us an answer”).
In a ...
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