‘Potere’, ‘sapere’, ‘riuscire’ - How to translate ‘can’ | The Coffee Break Italian Show 1.04
Coffee Break Italian
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🗓️ 7 November 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Do you know how to translate the English word "can" into Italian? In this episode of The Coffee Break Italian Show, Mark and Francesca discuss how verbs potere, sapere, and riuscire transform the simple idea of "can" in English. By the end of this episode you will know the different uses of these three verbs and also their irregular conjugations!
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| 0:00.0 | Cau a benvenuti a coffee break Italian this is the coffee break Italian show and we're delighted to be by |
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| 0:33.0 | Hello Mark, and what do you do do you? |
| 0:36.0 | Today we're talking about a really interesting topic and that is the verb can in English or to be able to in English because in Italian we've got one verb in English and three possibilities in Italian. |
| 0:48.0 | See, see, see, see, so, so, I'm not a variety of Italian. |
| 0:52.0 | But I'm sorry, I'm sorry. in Italian. It's. The variety. |
| 0:53.0 | But we're probably. |
| 0:54.0 | Yes, coming chame. |
| 0:55.0 | So, come inchame. |
| 0:56.0 | So, as we said, |
| 1:00.0 | the verb can, can be translated in three different ways in Italian and we're |
| 1:06.4 | going to go through each of them give some examples and then talk about the |
| 1:10.0 | difference in each of those situations. |
| 1:12.4 | Yes perfect Mark in fact the difference in each of those situations. |
| 1:12.6 | Yes, perfect, Mark. |
| 1:14.6 | In fact, in Italian, we have a solid three options. |
| 1:18.6 | We usually have three options. |
| 1:20.8 | The verb sapere, the verb potere and also the verb yushire |
| 1:27.0 | right so we've got sapere which literally means to know how to know how to do something. Then you say potere to be able to and |
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