Mastering the negative imperative in Italian | CBI Show 2.07
Coffee Break Italian
Coffee Break Languages
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🗓️ 9 July 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
We're following on from the previous Coffee Break Italian Show episode and learning how to master the negative imperative in Italian in this episode! We discuss its negative forms, as well as how to conjugate verbs in the negative in the tu, voi and Lei forms. Be sure to enjoy episode 6 first!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Coffee Break Italian show. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Maritzio. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm a franchise. |
| 0:09.0 | Here at the Coffee Break Italian show we help you take your Italian further one |
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| 0:29.8 | Great! |
| 0:30.8 | Alora, Ogy Francesca, continuing a discourse that had been initiated in the course |
| 0:37.8 | episode. |
| 0:38.8 | That's right, Maorizio. |
| 0:40.0 | In the previous episode, we introduce the imperative |
| 0:43.2 | and today we are looking at how to form the imperative in negative structures. |
| 0:49.3 | So we're talking about the imperative negative. Perfect, Al-A-Loradai. Come in cham. the negative |
| 0:55.0 | I'm gonna come in cham, |
| 1:00.0 | I would say come in cham |
| 1:00.0 | I would say that we should quickly review the function of the imperative. When do we use it? |
| 1:07.2 | Okay, as we said in our previous episode we use the imperative in Italian for a variety of functions and they are all very practical functions. |
| 1:17.4 | So giving advice, orders, exhorting, giving instructions for recipes, finding your way in a city, so it's a very versatile mood. |
| 1:29.6 | Exactly, and it can be used in the negative to tell someone not to do something. |
| 1:35.0 | Exactly, right? |
| 1:37.0 | So it's useful also in this sense. |
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