Practice describing what you liked most in Italian using piacere with correct gender and number agreement
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| Do you know how to talk about the highlights and qualities of a past experience in Italian? |
| Welcome to Three Step Italian Practice by ItalianPod101.com. In this lesson, you will practice how to talk about what you liked most and describe past experiences in Italian using the verb piacere with correct agreement in gender and number. |
| Let's look at the main dialogue. |
| Two people are having a conversation. |
| Il viaggio a Firenze è stato divertente. Grazie, nonna. |
| "The trip to Florence was fun. Thank you, Grandma." |
| Di niente. Cosa ti è piaciuto di più? |
| "You're welcome. What did you like the most?" |
| Il tramonto sul fiume. E a te, nonna? |
| "The sunset over the river. And you, Grandma?" |
| I funghi porcini. |
| "The porcini mushrooms." |
| Sì, anche a me sono piaciuti i funghi porcini. |
| "Yes, I liked the porcini mushrooms too." |
| In this lesson, we're looking at how to ask and answer what someone liked most about a past experience in Italian. |
| The key question is: Cosa ti è piaciuto di più? — which means "What did you like the most?" |
| To express this, Italians use the verb piacere in the passato prossimo, which is a past tense used to talk about completed actions or experiences in the past. It is formed with a helping verb — either avere or essere — and a past participle. Piacere uses essere as the helping verb. |
| The verb piacere works like "to be pleasing to someone," which is why we need to use indirect object pronouns, like mi for "to me," ti for "to you," or le for "to her," with the verb piacere. |
| The really important part is that the verb piacere doesn't agree with the person who liked something — it agrees with the thing that was liked. So always make sure that the past participle agrees in gender and number with the thing that was liked. |
| If the noun is masculine and singular, we use è piaciuto. |
| If it's feminine and singular, we say è piaciuta. |
| For masculine plural nouns, it becomes sono piaciuti, and for feminine plural nouns, it's sono piaciute. |
| Now let's practice using this grammar with some sentences. |
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