December 08, 2008

Right... What is a Pronoun, Again?

From an online Italian course:


Pronouns. Pronouns (io, tu, Lei, egli, ella, noi, voi, essi, and loro) aren't anything that you can actually use yet, because I haven't given you any verbs. But as we progress, pronouns will be very important, so I'm introducing them now. The Italian pronouns are used almost always exactly the same way they are in English. In English, you would say

I went to the store.
In Italian, you would just substitute io for I in the sentence above (we'll pretend that the rest of the sentence is really in Italian) and end up with
Io went to the store.
Trust me, how one uses these pronouns will make much more sense when we learn some verbs.

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