History & Origins
Italian evolved from which form of Latin?
Vulgar latin
Italian nouns have what two grammatical features?
gender and number
How many vowels does Italian have?
7
Italian is known as the language of what art form?
music
Ciao means what?
Hi or Bye
Which Italian dialect became the basis of Standard Italian?
Tuscan (Florentine)
What type of language is Italian (morphologically)?
fusional / highly inflectional
Italian is considered a ______ language because words are pronounced as written.
phonetic
Italians famously use many what while speaking?
hand gestures
Translate “In bocca al lupo.”
good luck
Name one famous Italian writer who helped standardize the language.
Dante / Petrarch / Boccaccio
What must adjectives agree with in Italian?
gender and number
Give an example of how double consonants change meaning.
pala (shovel) vs palla (ball)
What is the longest Italian word mentioned in the presentation?
precipitevolissimevolmente
How do Italians respond to “In bocca al lupo”?
Crepi!
In which century did Tuscan rise to prominence?
13th - 14th century
Italian verbs conjugate for person, number, mood, tense, and what?
aspect
Stress in Italian typically falls on which syllable?
second-to-last syllable
Most Italian words end in what?
vowels
What does “Dolce vita” mean?
the sweet life
Which major event in 1861 helped unify Italian as a national language?
Italy's unification
What is it called when one ending on a verb expresses multiple meanings?
fusion / fusional morphology
Which two vowels have open and closed versions in Italian?
e and o
Italian dialects can be so different that…
Some Italians struggle to understand each other.
“Piano piano” means what?
Slowly / take it easy