Italian Course Beginner Series 64 The Polite Form Video Lecture - Learn

hello and welcome to another video
tutorial today we're going to talk about
data delay also known in English as the
polite form so we are going to learn how
to be polite
now the concepts in this video will be
very very easy and the video itself will
actually be quite quick but a thing that
you've got to remember is that you will
take a lot of practice to actually
master the polite form and to make it
yours to make it second nature now
basically the deal is when Italians want
to be polite instead of saying you
they say she and that's about it
and they pretend to be talking to her to
the third person singular feminine
Kade's
so instead of saying - they say lai if
you don't know what - and lei are you
have to watch the video on personal
pronouns okay so the personal pronouns
are I you he she it cetera and in
Italian you have your - Louie lei Noi
etc so lei is she in English and that's
why you have sentences like scusi lai
chroma C comma or scusi comma C comma
Lai and of course you're not talking to
a guy asking about some girl's name
you're talking to someone that you don't
know and you are asking politely his
name or her name it doesn't matter if
it's a girl a guy a man a woman you
always use the pronoun she' so I could
talk to let's say a judge or a very
famous person or a police officer and
say scusi lei comma C comma in English
you would say excuse me
what is your name this differs from the
normal to committee kami
because we basically use a different
degree of politeness okay so the very
first sentence that you see is not
polite and the second one is the polite
version of the first sentence but the
meaning is not changed I'm gonna give
you another example we've seen the verb
to stay in Italian where did we
encounter the verb to stay started we
encountered it when we covered the
present continues and the past continues
because instead of saying I am doing in
Italian you actually say I stay doing in
Italian you use the verb to stay instead
of the verb to be so we already know the
conjugation of the verb to stay in
Italian in the present tense start it so
he'll stop to stai Louis star light star
etc let me ask you a question what do
you say to ask somebody how he is doing
like how do you say how are you in
Italian you say call me die how are you
come as die come is die of course the
subject is you but you don't say it
it's omitted come is die now what if you
want to make this polite pause the video
and think about it for a second okay so
we basically use the third-person
singular in the feminine case as opposed
to the second person singular so instead
of you we use lay so call me star okay
come is that this is a very formal way
of asking somebody how are you doing
of course the pronoun the omitted
pronoun in this case is lei and this is
the reason why you say in Italian direct
then lei you give leg
you give lei to someone means you
basically use the word lei to somebody
as opposed to using you like you would
normally do with other people and this
is it so now you know how the formal or
polite form works in Italian as I said
it requires a lot of practice to get
used to this but it's not very difficult
as you can see I hope to have helped
with this video let me know in the
comments I will see you in the next one
practice take care and see you soon