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topic of today's episode Mark okay so today's episode we are focusing on the verb a very

to have but we're looking at a very expressions okay okay interesting. Okay interesting.

I'm not brought to you to brontic soo come in chamele Interesting. I said we're looking at Averie expressions. These are these expressions where we use a very

an Italian but very often we don't use to have in English.

Yes, so in Italian we have a set of expressions that in English you would rather use to be to basically say the same thing

but in Italian as you were saying we use the verb to have a vera to begin with I think we should just do a quick

review of how to conjugate a very in the present tense yes so quickly it would be o aye a A, A, A Biamo, A Vete, and no.

I'm beautifully coordinated there.

If you're not watching the video version,

you're missing out on these wonderful hand signals. So that's a very in the present

tense but you said we use it to translate to be sometimes. Yes, so for example one of the first things

that you learn in a language is to express your age.

In English you say I am 43 but an Italian that's not my age but an Italian

I wish it was my age.

In Italian, we would use Avere.

So you would say,

I O quarantaterre a nie.

O quaranta rea.

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