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Advanced Italian tense forms 8/17 – Verbi causativi

December 24, 2014 by Daniel

There’s no let up from OnlineItalianClub, despite it being Christmas Eve.

While universities around the world have temporarily emptied of young people studying Italian, with a consequent drop in traffic to our site, you regulars are still interested, still faithfully opening each email!

Thank you.

Anyway, today’s ‘grammar listening’ deals with the causative verb form – in English that would be ‘have a pizza delivered’, ‘get your nose pierced’, and so on – verbs that you ’cause’ to be carried out by others.

Italian isn’t much different in terms of the form – to see how it works, check out today’s text on the topic of military service.

Verbi causativi

(And if you’d rather by studying Italian than eating turkey over the next few days, catch up with the rest of the current series here.)

P.S.

Three items of ‘any other business’ for you today…

1. Between Christmas and New Year, please be aware of possible disruption to OnlineItalianClub.com’s usual schedule of emailing on Monday/Wednesday/Friday.

This is due to my wife and kids dragging me off on holiday for a few days. We’ll be heading up from Bologna to Trieste, then on to Slovenia, Hungary/Budapest, Austria/Vienna, New Year’s Eve in Germany/Munich, and finally back to BO via Bolzano… I’m hoping most places will have WiFi, but you never know…

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Comments

  1. Karen says

    December 24, 2014 at 2:04 pm

    Have a great holiday. I just have a day’s cooking to do before i attempt today’s exercise

    • sergey says

      December 24, 2014 at 6:24 pm

      Buon Natale Karen!
      Un abbraccio dalla Russia,
      Sergey.

  2. sergey says

    December 24, 2014 at 6:21 pm

    Ciao Daniel e
    Buon Natale!!!!!
    Ti auguro festeggiare una festa buonissima, piena di gioia e serenita’, insieme con i tuoi cari!
    E poi – buon viaggio!
    Grazie mille per il tuo lavoro per noi quest’anno e allo prossimo incontro nell’anno nuovo!
    Sergey.

  3. Dot Read says

    December 25, 2014 at 10:47 am

    Buon Natale e buona vacanza Daniel!

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