Buon giorno!
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It’s Friday, and it’s time for a new blog post… and I thought why not some ‘verbi’ per venerdi’? (some ‘verbs’ for ‘Friday’) And a new Italian blog post was born — I verbi del venerdi’!
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Ecco una mini-lezione basata su cinque verbi. (Here’s a mini lesson based on five verbs.)
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Consigliare, Sfogliare, Osservare, Riferire, Raccontare
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Listen here for pronunciation:
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Here’s what they mean. Notice how for some, there is a similar word in English — a good trick for remembering the meaning.
- Consigliare: to suggest, advise, or counsel
- Sfogliare: to browse or to page or leaf through (the Italian word for page is pagina or foglia)
- Osservare: to observe
- Riferire: to report (as in to report on for a news story), or to refer
- Raccontare: to tell (a story), or to recount
These Italian verbs are from a current Italian news story, “Bimbo Prodigio” (Child Prodigy). A complete audio lesson (including the story, a translation, and a vocabulary study) is available on this site for subscribers of Jodina’s Italian Audio Club. A subscription is just $6.95/month for unlimited online access to a large and growing collection of custom audio lessons not available anywhere else. Click here for more info.
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The original story can be read on the ANSA website.
I actually learned consigliare when I swtiched my facebook settings to Italiano last year, along with other verbs like :
aggiungere (to add),
caricare (load, as in upload photos),
segnare (mark “segna come non letto” or “segnala spam”)
eliminare (delete)
annullare (cancel)
yet … cancellare (delete) … oopsie … I learned the hard way, was not the same as annullare 🙂
condividere (to share)
and my favorite: nascondere (to hide).