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Seventy prompts on the A1 essentials: tu vs Lei, greetings and survival phrases, il/lo/la/l' and plurals, essere, avere and stare, the present tense, c'è and ci sono, articulated prepositions, possessives with family nouns, passato prossimo, numbers, time and dates.

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  1. In Italian, when do you call someone tu, and when Lei?
    tu for a friend, relative, child or fellow student; Lei for a stranger, an older person or anyone in a formal setting.

    Talking to two or more people, use voi.

    Watch out: Lei takes the third-person verb: Come sta? (formal) vs Come stai? (tu).
    Greetings & survival
  2. Which definite article does a masculine singular noun starting with an ordinary consonant take, and what is its plural?
    il in the singular, i in the plural: il libro → i libri, il treno → i treni.
    Articles & nouns
  3. Conjugate essere (to be) in the present tense.
    io sono, tu sei, lui/lei è, noi siamo, voi siete, loro sono

    Watch out: è (is) needs its accent; e without one means and.
    Essere avere & stare
  4. What are the present-tense endings of a regular -are verb such as parlare?
    -o, -i, -a, -iamo, -ate, -ano: parlo, parli, parla, parliamo, parlate, parlano.
    Present tense
  5. What do c'è and ci sono mean, and which goes with a plural noun?
    c'è = there is (singular), ci sono = there are (plural): C'è un bar all'angolo. Ci sono due bagni.
    C'è & ci sono
  6. What do di + il, di + la and di + i become?
    del, della, dei (also dello, dell', degli, delle): il libro del professore, la casa della nonna, i giochi dei bambini.
    Articulated prepositions
  7. What does an Italian possessive agree with, and what usually comes before it?
    It agrees with the thing owned, and normally takes the definite article: il mio libro, la mia casa.

    A man says la mia macchina; a woman says il mio telefono.
    Possessives
  8. How is the passato prossimo formed?
    Present of avere or essere + past participle: Ho mangiato una pizza. Sono arrivato ieri.

    It covers both I ate and I have eaten.
    Passato prossimo
  9. How do you count from 11 to 19 in Italian?
    undici, dodici, tredici, quattordici, quindici, sedici, diciassette, diciotto, diciannove

    From 17 on the order flips: dici- (ten) comes first.
    Numbers
  10. How do you ask What time is it?, and say It's three o'clock and It's one o'clock?
    Che ora è? or Che ore sono? — Sono le tre. — È l'una.

    Hours are plural and feminine (le ore), so only one o'clock, noon and midnight take è: È mezzogiorno.
    Time & dates

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