Italian A2 · Elementary

Talk about the past and future, make comparisons, and handle everyday needs, quantities and requests in Italian.

• Stressed pronouns after prepositions (me, te, lui/lei, noi, voi, loro)
• Passato prossimo with avere
• Passato prossimo with essere (agreement)
• Passato prossimo: common irregular past participles (fatto, detto, visto, preso...)
• Imperfetto: regular and irregular forms
• Passato prossimo vs imperfetto
• Reflexive verbs (present tense)
• Reflexive verbs in the passato prossimo
• Direct object pronouns (mi, ti, lo, la, ci, vi, li, le)
• Indirect object pronouns (mi, ti, gli, le, ci, vi, gli/loro)
• Position of object pronouns
• Past participle agreement with direct object pronouns
• Ne for quantities
• Ci for places (there / to there)
• Comparatives (più... di/che, meno... di/che, così... come)
• Relative superlative (il più, il meno)
• Absolute superlative (-issimo)
• Short forms of bello and buono before nouns
• Futuro semplice
• Real conditions (se + presente, futuro)
• Stare per + infinitive (near future)
• Stare + gerundio (present progressive)
• Quantifiers (molto, poco, troppo, tanto, abbastanza)
• Adverbs of manner (-mente)
• Negative words and double negation (non... mai, niente, nessuno, più)
• Formulaic conditional for polite requests (vorrei, potrei, mi piacerebbe)
• Formal commands with Lei
• Negative informal commands (non + infinitive)
• Relative pronoun: che
• Da + time expressions (duration)
• Basic linkers (perché, quindi, ma, però)
• Basic indefinite words (qualcuno, qualcosa, ogni, tutto)