Continue Learning Italian
By Michael San Filippo, About.com Guide to Italian Language
Continue learning Italian with in-depth information on verbs and linguistics. Use hand gestures to get your point across. Review parts of speech including nouns, pronouns, adjectives, prepositions, articles, and interrogatives.
Italian Nouns
Nouns are words that describe a person, place, thing, animal or abstract idea.
Italian Pronouns
Pronouns are those little words that make a big difference.
- Italian Pronoun Ne
- Combining Direct and Indirect Pronouns
- How To Use Formal And Informal Subject Pronouns
Italian Verbs
Essential information on Italian verb formation, mood, tenses, conjugation charts, and usage.
- 1001 Italian Verbs
- Lessons On Italian Verbs
- Table of Italian Verb Endings: Part One
- Table of Italian Verb Endings: Part Two
- First Conjugation Verbs
- Second Conjugation Verbs
- Third Conjugation Verbs
- How to Conjugate Italian Verbs Like A Native
- Indicative
- Subjunctive
- Conditional
- Imperative
- Compound Tenses
Italian Adjectives
An adjective describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.
Italian Articles
An article is a word that, combined with a noun, indicates the type of reference being made by the noun. The three main articles in the English language are the, an and a.
- Italian Definite Article
- Italian Indefinite Article
- Italian Partitive Article
- Use of Italian Definite Articles with Possessive Adjectives
Italian Prepositions
Prepositions links nouns, pronouns, or phrases to other words in a sentence.
- Italian Preposition In
- Italian Prepositions Per, Su, Con, Fra, and Tra
- Italian Prepositional Articles
- Italian Verbs Followed By Prepositions
Italian Interrogatives
An interrogative word is used to ask a question. In Italian there are several ways to ask a question.
Hand Gestures

Italians use body language and hand gestures to punctuate an expression and give it a shading that the word or phrase itself lacks.
Linguistics
Italian linguistics is the scientific study of the Italian language. Italian linquistics includes such topics as phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics.

