Italian Course Beginner Series 32: The Articulate Prepositions Video Lecture | Learn Italian Language: For Beginners and Travellers

hello and welcome to another Italian
tutorial today we are going to cover
articulate prepositions now we've
already seen the prepositions in Italian
there they are
these are the simple prepositions in
Italian before introducing you to the
articulate prepositions I want to ask
you a question how would you translate
the sentence the color of the sea is
blue first of all I want you to know
that all the words that are in this
sentence have been covered in the course
but if you don't remember or you haven't
watched the previous videos then you can
look it up you can look these words up
quickly in a dictionary online and try
and do it by yourself pause the video
and then come back the color of the sea
is blue how to save the color how to
translate the color in Italian now the
word color is colloid
we know that the word color is masculine
therefore we need a masculine definite
article ela Collura
because we are talking about the color
of the sea we're talking about a
particular color otherwise we would say
une Collura a color in general so the
colour of the sea is blue L Collura
let's first translate the color is blue
so in Collura
how to say it is how to conjugate the
verb to be in the third-person singular
in the present tense and and we've seen
this word in the very first video so the
color is blue the color blue is blue now
we want to add a little bit of extra
information and squeeze it in the
sentence therefore we need the
prepositions because the prepositions
will do the job okay
so the colour of the sea
of is D and then the C is ill Mari the
word C is masculine male although it
ends in E the plural form of the word
matter is Merri with an i so you can
tell it's masculine and the article that
goes along with it has to be masculine
so ela is Colora d el maraa at blue this
is a simplistic way of translating that
sentence in Italian meaning no Italian
native speaker would ever say or write
something like this why well the reason
why is exactly the reason why I made
this video it's because there are things
in Italian called articulate
prepositions what they are is basically
one preposition and one definite article
merging and getting together to form a
new word which is called articulate
preposition so in this case D plus L
become dil as you can see you have all
the propositions here and the definite
articles that link together with these
prepositions and if you look at the
bottom of the page you will see that in
each one of these compartments there is
one preposition so we have nine
prepositions here and we have nine
different compartments and if we have a
look at the first compartment we are
basically looking at the first
proposition linking with each one of
these articles so D plus L would be del
D plus e will be daily and so on so in
this case we have del and this is y
particular proposition are so important
it's because they make the space
shorter more neat and better to hear and
this is what everybody uses so writing
the ill matter would be considered wrong
you have to say bill now what's the big
deal there's no big deal
our tickler prepositions are very easy
and you have to learn them so make a
table in your notebook and write them
all down as you can see there's a
subtlety to all this sometimes the
simple proposition and the article do
not merge for instance pair rah rah do
not merge as you can see there's no
articulate preposition here I mean I
call them particular prepositions but in
this case all they are are just
prepositions plus the article after so
they remain two words they don't merge
all you have to remember is that these
three propositions will never link and
form an articular preposition so they
remain the way they are and corn only
links with eel to become coal and for
all the other articles there's
absolutely no sign of linking I hope
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