Today we have a nice & easy Italian exercise on ‘Il participio passato’, plus the start of the promised promotion on online Italian lessons.
What first?
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OK, end of commercial break, now for today’s free Italian exercise, which as I mentioned is on ‘Il participio passato‘, that is to say the ‘past participle’ of verbs.
If you’re an English speaker, you should find these sentences relatively easy to work out. The past participle is used in one of the two clauses to replace the main verb and subject.
The exercise really just involves working out who or what the past participle is referring to, and making sure to use the right ending – masculine, feminine, singular or plural.
I got 12/12 on this one, so it must be easy. Don’t be afraid to give it a go, whatever your level!
A mercoledì!
Linda says
Ciao! I have just started using your site and so appreciate the exercises! One thing that would greatly help me (and I believe others) is to have the translations listed somewhere. Please forgive me if they are on the site and I have overlooked them. The reason is that the translation would help me at another level than just the goal of the exercise; it would help me expand and better understand it ALL as I am stumbling along. Grazie!
Daniel says
Hi Linda,
Thanks for the feedback. Regarding translations into English of the material on this site, I have no plans to do this, sorry! There are excellent reasons why ‘helping’ you with translations at an early stage in your ‘Italian journey’ will in the medium-long term just hinder you instead.
Sorry if that seems harsh, but it’s true, and decades of teaching and learning languages have confirmed it…
My advice is to begin with the very easiest materials on the site, and to not worry when you don’t understand things – it’s not obligatory to know every word you read or hear. Just get as much Italian as you can into your head, and the pieces of the puzzle will eventually start to come together (even without translations.)
Promise!