Prepositions: A

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Let's keep working on our Italian lessons. Ready to start working with some prepositions.

If you know how to use prepositions it will be way easier for you to make more complex phrases in Italian.

Let's start with the Prepositionn "A":

1.- As a preposition of movement: to go somewhere:

Italian	English
vado a casa	I go home

With the names of the cities:

vado a Roma, Milano

I go to Rome, Milan

2.- Of time:

mangio sempre a quest'ora	I always at this hour
alle nove, alle dieci	at nine, at ten

3.- of state: with some frequent names as: casa (home), scuola (school), università (university), ospedale (hospital), porto (port), lezione (lesson), bar (bar) mare (sea), stazione (station), stadio (stadium).

sono a casa	I am home
rimango a casa	I stay home

4.- To compliment a structure:

regalare a qualcuno	Give a present to someone
dare a qualcuno	Give to someone

5.- To indicate an object that works a certain way:

una stufa a gas	A gas tove
una barca a vela	A sailing boat

6.- To indicate a flavour or a condiment:

gelato al limone	A lemon ice cream
pasta al ragú	pasta with ragú

ATTENZIONE:

andare a piedi	Go walking
andare a cavallo	Go on a horse
parlare a voce alta, bassa	Talk in high/low voice

So that's all for now.

If you keep reading, you will find some additional rules and exceptions for this prepositions.

I hope we'll work on these rules in some future lessons.

But for now, I hope you enjoy this introduction.

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