Italian Grammar: Si Impersonale

Si is an important pronoun, and there are a few different ways it can be used. Let's learn the si impersonale.
Script by Patrizia Farina, Professor of Italian at Western Connecticut State University and Purchase College.
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[@andrewwilliams9580]

Not only helpful with the whole Si thing but with the words never and but. I often got confused. Seeing them in one sentence together, in context, helped. Never always goes at the end.

[@marymechling82]

Love the examples!

[@xXPurpleLoliTranceXx]

Thank you, Dave!! I've always wondered what “si” means in italiano 😭

[@step1645]

Bravo Dave, Mi fa piacere che fai lezioni di italiano. Io sono italiano e per me è davvero strano vedere questi video😂😂😂👍👍 Continua così!!!!👍👍

[@PurpleBroadcast]

Thanks, Dave!

[@maddiestarbuck240]

grazie molto professor dave!!!

[@janeyre82]

Alright, though some of the examples you gave can't actually be classified as "SI impersonale", rather as "SI passivante" (at 2:27, 2:59 and 5:36), 'cause they can be correcly replaced by an equivalent ordinary passive sentence.

[@RaiseAK]

Whatch out. If si reflexive is with another reflexive verb it becomes se (se is "if" too). For example: He takes an ice cream -> lui si prende un gelato. He takes it -> lui se lo prende.

[@JV-km9xk]

Thanks. This is very helpful to a beginner.

[@sabahrashid3174]

thanks

[@anacarneiro8929]

Bravissimo !!!

[@sabahrashid3174]

I want to ask a question can I ask you?

[@dfho5140]

Professor Dave, Can i say " quando se lo spezza" for "when you break it" ?

[@theophonchana6307]

What's pleonastico?

[@niccolowadia3761]

Hi , the construction of CI + SI is a bit ??? can you explain a bit better PL. !!! THNX

[@hobaelala3056]

Si to depart i'd have to arrive but if we don't know when one arrives shouldn't we say also that we don't know when you depart

[@aligharaeini5971]

perfetto

[@JV-km9xk]

5:38 I can't believe Italian have also the expression of taking a bath for "swimming". I am Filipino and we also have an expression like this in the Hiligaynon language. Puwede mag-ligo (One can take a bath)=One can swim. Che interesante.

[@mohammadmandeel2743]

It looks like just in French when we use the pronoun "on".. Si dice = on dit = it's said... Please correct me.

[@sabahrashid3174]

please reply

[@Blueberry-zk3ib]

0:44 but when did u explain that? plz answer ,,,,,

[@thefakewitchdoctor]

Agreed. Some one asked this on Reddit. And received useful answers

[@user-dt4lv7ww6b]

Grazie mille ma si mangia tre gelati !! É impersonale non ??

[@theophonchana5025]

#si_impersonale #impersonal_si #impersonal_verb #reflexive_verb #impersonal_reflexive_verb #defective_verb

[@kristiyaniliev4002]

...ma se dico: "Ci si va in macchina?" (Per esempio in montagna) è un altro caso, non è vero? "Ci" non sostituisce "si"...

[@janeyre82]

Nell'esempio che hai fatto, CI è solo un avverbio di luogo (sostituisce "in montagna"). Il doppio pronome CI SI al quale ti riferisci tu è quello che si usa in frasi come "Ci si vede domani" o "Ci si lava le mani col sapone", dove in realtà dovremmo avere due SI, di cui uno reciproco (nella prima frase) o riflessivo (nella seconda) e l'altro impersonale, ma il primo dei due diventa CI per evitare la ripetizione.

[@xXPurpleLoliTranceXx]

At 5:30 you put “they” instead of “the” 😂

[@theophonchana5025]

#reflexive_pronoun #impersonal_pronoun #impersonal_reflexive_pronoun

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