| Hi everyone, welcome back to ItalianPod101.com. |
| My name is Desy and in this video, we're going to talk about funerals in Italy. |
| il funerale in Italia |
| Even though I hope you may never need this, I'm still going to give you some vocabulary |
| useful when talking about funerals in Italy, il funerale, and give you an idea of how it goes. |
| Of course, it depends on the will of the deceased one, |
| so it's really important to also check il testamento, testamento, the will, |
| testamento, and then it could go two ways, there is the civil funeral and the religious one. |
| The difference is basically that you don't have the part in the church, |
| which is really similar to the wedding celebration as well. |
| Either way, you will have la camera ardente, camera ardente, which is the funeral home |
| that hosts the body of the deceased one. It's called camera ardente, so burning room, |
| ardente, because in the past there were candles to light it up for the whole wake. |
| Wake is veglia, veglia, so for the last greetings to the body, basically. |
| It could either be in the house of the deceased one or in the hospital. |
| Generally speaking, the bara, bara, coffin, tends to be open so that you can see at least |
| part of the body, even though it's not always possible. |
| La veglia doesn't come with any food or drink as I saw in some movies about, you know, |
| abroad celebration. Here there is nothing and basically just some music sometimes. |
| Before getting to la sepoltura, la sepoltura, the burial at the cemetery, al cimitero, |
| cimitero, depending on which ceremony you chose, if you have the religious ritual, |
| then you also have a stop at the church and there you have la messa, la messa, |
| so the mass with the blessing of the priest. And before that, actually the day before the funeral, |
| there is in rosario, rosario, the rosary, which is just like a way of celebrating, |
| a way to commemorate. There are some memories told about the person |
| and that's supposed to be in the church of the area where the deceased one used to live |
| and it's late at night, not super late, but like 6 p.m. So even people that cannot actually |
| participate to the funeral can still go and pay their condolences to the family. |
| It's easier to attend because it's late at night while the funeral could be in the morning as well. |
| At the cemetery, around the coffin, sometimes there are corone di fiori, so flower crowns |
| and then fiori, flowers can also be found on the grave, sulla tomba, tomba, tomba is the grave. |
| Recently something that is also really common is la cremazione, cremazione, so cremation, |
| you know, when the body burns. But in any case, you may want to know what to write on a sympathy |
| card or even what just to say to someone that just lost a loved one. And that's condolence, |
| condolences. It could be |
| the most felt, heartful condolences or |
| If you want to write more and be more formal, then let's check together some examples. |
| A basic phrase could be |
| our condolences to you and your family, then if you want you can add an adjective like we were |
| saying before. |
| May our prayers |
| in this difficult moment. |
| May our prayers help you in this difficult moment. |
| Sono onorato di aver conosciuto and then you put the name. I'm honored to have met |
| name. Sono onorato di aver conosciuto name. Mi mancherà immensamente. |
| I'll miss him or her incredibly. Mi mancherà immensamente. |
| Non possono esprimere |
| il dolore della perdita. |
| Le parole non possono esprimere il dolore della perdita. Words can't express losses pain. |
| Possa la nostra vicinanza alleviarlo. May our closeness relieve it though. |
| May our closeness, our support relieve it. |
| Possano i ricordi di momenti felici confortarvi. |
| May memories of happy moments comfort you. |
| Possano i ricordi di momenti felici confortarvi. Or lastly something that you can write even on the card |
| together with flowers. |
| Possano questi fiori giungervi come un gesto di supporto durante questa tragedia. |
| May these flowers come as a gesture of support during this tragedy. |
| Possano questi fiori giungervi come un gesto di supporto durante questa tragedia. |
| May these flowers giungervi come as a gesture of support during this tragedy. |
| Given that, I hope you won't need to use these phrases. |
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| Thank you for watching and |
| I'll see you soon. Bye bye. Ciao ciao. |
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