Italian Course Beginner Series 21: How to Ask Questions Video Lecture | Learn Italian Language: For Beginners and Travellers

hello guys today we are going to cover
questions so I'll be explaining to you
how to ask questions in Italian now this
will be the easiest video ever so you're
not expecting this I'm gonna I'm gonna
shock you basically what do you do in
English first
what are you doing English to ask a
question to make a statement
a question basically you see the book
you add the auxiliary verb do and then
you are the question mark and if you
really want you can change the
intonation so from you see the book you
go to do you see the book and this is
how you do in English okay there's a
special case in English where you
basically use the verb to be or the verb
to have as auxiliary verb so with all
verbs in English you use do but if the
verb happens to be the verb to be or to
have then you use the same verb and you
basically reverse the structure okay so
you're good becomes are you good so the
verb the auxiliary verb anticipates the
subject now in Italian is so much easier
basically you don't do anything so if
you want to make a question you just
have to change the intonation so
intonation is a lot more important in
Italian than it is in English because if
that's missing people don't understand
what you mean so you see the book in
Italian becomes too baby el libro we
haven't had a look at verbs but we'll do
that soon but we know that the personal
pronoun that you would expect it to you
to to vary in Libra now we add a new
word to our dictionary Libra which means
book by now your dictionary should be
quite long anyway Libra is masculine
because it ends in O and it's a regular
word therefore it needs the masculine
all of the definite article and that is
ill very ill Libra too very liberal or
more simply if we don't put the subject
Chris in Italian you hardly ever see any
subject it's all implicit Betty in Libra
the sentence Betty in Libra means you
see the book now if you want to make it
a question instead of saying ready in
Libra we will say baby Libra this is a
question basically if you have to write
it you add a question mark not to this
is not Spanish
just one like in English and you change
the intonation and that's it this is the
question there's no exceptions basically
this is the point so when you when you
use the verb to be or to have it's the
same thing you don't change anything
that's all you you have to take away
from this video it's not much but it's
so important so make sure you remember
it so now you know how to ask questions
in Italian and you know how to write
questions in Italian also sorry you
don't know the conjugation so this is
not very important but the data is the
infinitive form of the verb to see which
appears in our examples therefore write
it down put it in your in your
dictionary because it will come up and
this is an example of the area type verb
we've seen that we have three different
types of verb in Italian not just one
like in English in English you just have
verbs and Italian you have three types
of verbs and they are different
depending on what their ending is like
in in their infinitive form in this case
the verb ends in area therefore we will
expect we will expect this verb to
behave like all the area type verbs and
it does hope you enjoyed this video if
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video and look forward to the dialogue
see