How to Learn Prepositions and Conjunctions in Italian
Prepositions and conjunctions are an important parts of any language. They bring together bulk of the language that includes nouns, verbs, and adjective. Learning them take a serious obstacle out of your way. This is "How to" approach.
Steps
Become familiar with prepositions first and then with conjunction.
Prepositions
- Know that a preposition brings many senses in its meaning,
- Sense of position.
- Sense of time.
- Sense of direction.
- Other senses (there is a long list of them).
- Note that a proposition has an object.
- Learn the most important prepositions (senses for some of them come inside the brackets),
- to (direction) : a
- at (position) : a
- in (position) : in
- on (position) : su
- of (possession - direction) : di
- from (direction) : da
- for : per
- with : con
- Learn some other prepositions of important usages are :
- by : entro
- except : eccetto
- without : senza
- until : fino a
- after : dopo
- before : prima di
- during : durante
- Learn some preposition of place.
- over : su
- under : sotto
- above : sopra
- in front of : davanti a
- behind : dietro
- between : fra
- near : presso, vicino a
- far from : lontano da
- around : intorno a
- Learn some preposition of time.
- before : avanti, prima di
- after : dopo
Prepositions and Articles
- Note that in Italian some prepositions and definite articles that come after them fuse together in one word. In movies and other places that people imitate fake Italian, usually use them frequently as "della" and "alla" and so on.
- Learn change of articles as,
- il in attached form becomes : l.
- la in attached form becomes : lla.
- lo in attached form becomes : llo.
- l' in attached form becomes : ll'.
- i in attached form remains as : i.
- le in attached form becomes : lle.
- gli in attached form remains as : gli.
- Learn that the first set of articles mentioned in previous section () will attach to the attached form of articles. Among them
- di in attached form becomes de.
- in in attached form becomes ne.
- con in attached form becomes co.
- per in attached form becomes pe.
- others remain as they are.
- Study some examples as
- di + il : del
- di + la : della
- a + il : al
- a + la : alla
- in + il : nel
- in + la : nella
- con + il : col
- con + la : colla
Conjunctions
- Learn the most important conjunctions :
- and : et
- or : o
- but : ma
- Learn conditional conjunctions :
- if : se
- then : allora
- so (therefore) : perciò
- well then (all right, hence) : ebbene
- therefore : dunque
- Learn some other conjunction :
- because : perchè
- besides : inoltre
- since : siccome
- since : poichè
- Learn more conjunctions :
- that : che
- when : quando
- while : mentre
- not only : non solo
- but also : ma anche
- as ... as : così ... come
- as ... as : tanto ... quanto