Italian Course Beginner Series 22: The 5 W's Video Lecture | Learn Italian Language: For Beginners and Travellers

hello my name is Claudio as you may
already know and today we cover the
interrogative adverbs also known in
English as five W's meaning who what
where when and why and we are also going
to cover how why no I said how why
because it behaves exactly like one of
these adverbs if you want to ask
questions in Italian we have to know how
as well as who and so on okay so without
any further ado here you have it
key casa dov'è quando better kit coleman
key casa Dover Wanda Beckett Coleman
okay so this is how you pronounce them
key is the first one and that means who
and there's no much to say about these
words because they are literally adverbs
so you pick them up and you use them in
real-life situations
let's come up with some examples now
what does this mean this means who are
you
key say we've covered the verb to be
before in the present tense
so if you don't know this go and watch
that video and we also know that
Italians hate personal pronouns and this
is because they have to deal with very
difficult conjugations and all the
different conjugations are very
different from one another and that
makes obvious what the subject is so no
one would say key say using the word to
as well to literally means you so this
sentence by itself means who are you now
I lied in the last video so basically
when I taught you guys the questions and
how to make questions in Italian I said
in Italian you don't do anything you
just change the intonation
and there's no Celia verb basically it's
very easy to make a statement become a
question you don't do anything well this
is not completely true meaning when you
use the interrogative adverbs the
subject swaps with the verb like in
English so you say in English
you are Anna and the question is are you
Anna so the auxiliary verb and the
subject swap places in Italian you don't
swap anything so do say GRE
say she re say she re so changing the
intonation makes the statement a
question in English you swap these two
in Italian you don't however when you
use the interrogative adverbs you do for
instance
to say whatever kiss a - of course - the
subject is always emitted but if he
wasn't emitted then it would be here so
in real life conversations you will hear
say Anna or say she re or say Claudio
and then the question is kiss a so this
might be very confusing for some of you
because you might think okay so I don't
know where the subject is because nobody
ever use it so how do I know where he
should be well if you want the honest
truth you should actually be here
therefore you know that they actually
swap the subject and the verb actually
swap if you're using one of these
interrogative adverbs but this is really
all there is to it this is all there is
to questions in Italian now you know
everything okay
Kaza this is what daughter is where
quando is when better K is y and comer
is how careful at pet care because in
English you have the word why to ask a
question and then you reply with because
something so you use because when you
want to make the statement explaining
why but both Y and because can be
translated with / K so I'll give you an
example
okay now this is a very stupid sentence
but this is all I could come up with in
a second now this question means why are
you stupid
now we covered insults in Italian we
covered the world the verb to be and we
covered we're covering now the five W's
so you should understand everything
about this question better case a
stupider so why are you stupid and the
reason is because they pay me now as you
can see the word why and the word
because are exactly the same word and
this makes it so much easier in Italian
because you can really understand
whether in a conversation a question is
being asked or not if you tuned in and
you hear petcare and then a question and
then petcare something else this means
that a question was asked and then a
reply took place okay me partner now to
understand fully this we have to cover
the contracted object pronouns or object
contracted pronouns and this is very
advanced so we're going to have to wait
a bit for that but this is how you use
the particle petcare so guys I hope you
found this video helpful and I hope you
liked it I will see you in the next
video take care practice practice
practice and practice