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Learn Italian with Joy of Languages

174: La mia pizza! How to talk about what’s yours (when it really matters)

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🗓️ 25 February 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

You need Italian possessive adjectives in most everyday conversations. You’ll see how they work, when to use them and mistakes to avoid.

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Today's Italian words:
Noi italiani non condividiamo la nostra pizza = We Italians don’t share our pizza
Noi inglesi non condividiamo la nostra birra = We English don’t share our beer
È la mia pizza = It’s my pizza
È la mia birra = It’s my beer

Transcript

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0:00.0

Words like my and your are really important to know in Italian. They're in phrases like my family,

0:07.9

my friends, my partner, the kinds of words that you'll need for everyday conversations,

0:13.6

especially when you're getting to know people and sharing a little bit about yourself.

0:18.0

And these words are also really useful in a practical sense. Like if you need to tell

0:23.5

someone, hey, that's my food, especially when that food is a sacred Italian dish, pizza. Hi everyone and welcome to learn Italian with joy of languages.

0:49.1

In this episode, you'll find out how to say words like my, yours and more. The words that Italians use all the time.

0:58.6

But even though these words are really common, they can sometimes feel a bit tricky because the

1:03.2

way that they're used in Italian is a bit more complicated than in English and you'll see what we

1:08.1

mean in a moment. But before we get started, we'd like to ask you a

1:12.3

quick, favor. If you're listening to this on your podcast app, could you hit the subscribe or the

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follow button? This way you'll get notified when we release a new episode and you'll also help our

1:23.8

podcast grow so that we can keep making free lessons like this one.

1:27.6

Grazie.

1:29.0

In this conversation, you'll hear Katie and I talking about what we're eating and drinking in a restaurant.

1:36.9

See if you can hear the Italian words for mine and yours.

1:41.4

Hey, what do you? Mmm, good, the

1:47.0

your pizza.

1:48.0

Yes,

1:49.0

the my pizza.

1:52.0

No, Italian,

1:54.0

not we,

1:55.0

we don't

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