Chapter
Adding Stress with Accents
Polishing Your Italian Sound: Intonation
Getting the Most Out of Dictionaries
Chapter 3: Talking about Things with Nouns and Articles
Distinguishing between Masculine and Feminine Nouns
Moving from Singular to Plural with Regular Nouns
Forming Plurals of Irregular Nouns and Other Exceptions
Getting Specific or Speaking in General: A Primer on Articles
Using Suffixes and Prefixes with Nouns
Chapter 4: Dealing with Numbers, Dates, and Time
Counting from Zero to a Billion: Cardinal Numbers
Putting Things in Order: Ordinal Numbers
Looking at the Calendar: Days, Months, and Seasons
Chatting about the Weather
Familiarizing Yourself with the Metric System
Chapter 5: Adding Dimension and Description with Adjectives
Getting to Know Common Italian Adjectives
Using and Forming Italian Adjectives
Putting Adjectives in Their Proper Place
Part II: Forming Simple Sentences and Asking Questions
Chapter 6: Jumping into Action with Italian Regular Verbs
Conjugating Regular Verbs in Italian
Moving Past the Present Tense
Looking More Closely at Personal Subject Pronouns
Chapter 7: Using Irregular Verbs in the Present Tense
To Be or Not to Be: Conjugating Essere
To Have and to Hold: Conjugating Avere
To Make or Do: Conjugating Fare
To Ask How Others Are: Stare
To Come and Go: Venire and Andare
Declaring Your Needs, Wants, and Abilities: Dovere, Volere, and Potere
The -orre, -urre, and -arre Verbs
Using Irregular Verbs in Idiomatic Expressions
Chapter 8: Substituting Pronouns for Nouns
Replacing Nouns with Subject Pronouns
Telling What or Who with Direct Object Pronouns
Using Indirect Object Pronouns
Putting Stress Where It’s Due: Stressed and Unstressed Pronouns
Looking at Ubiquitous Italian Pronouns: Ci and Ne
Chapter 9: Using Reflexive Forms and Expressing Imperative Moods
Reflecting on Reflexive Verbs
Giving a Commanding Performance with the Imperative
Chapter 10: Declaring Your Likes (and Dislikes) with Piacere
Understanding How to Use Piacere
Expressing Likes (and Dislikes) in Any Tense
Looking at Other Verbs that Work Backward
Chapter 11: Asking and Responding to Questions
Looking at Ways of Asking Questions in Italian
Digging Deeper: Asking More Complex Questions
Providing More Detailed Answers to Questions
Answering Questions in the Negative
Part III: Beefing Up Your Sentences
Chapter 12: Prepositions: Little Words, Big Challenges
Combining Prepositions with Articles
Looking at the Common Connectors: Italian Prepositions
Chapter 13: Qualifying Nouns with Demonstrative, Indefinite, and Possessive Words
Talking About Questo (This) and Quello (That)
Keeping It Vague with Indefinite Adjectives
Conveying Something Indefinite with Pronouns
Assigning Ownership with Possessive Adjectives and Pronouns
Replacing Nouns with Possessive Pronouns
Chapter 14: Making Transitions, Forming Connections, and Commenting
Connecting Words or Sentences with Coordinating Conjunctions
Connecting Clauses with Subordinating Conjunctions
Joining Clauses with Conjunctions
Linking Independent Clauses to Dependent Clauses with Relative Pronouns
Using Other Transitional Elements
Interjecting and Commenting with Interjections
Chapter 15: Describing Actions with Adverbs
Getting Acquainted with Italian Adverbs
Sorting Adverbs by Function
Placing Adverbs in Sentences
Making Comparisons with Adverbs
Part IV: Talking about the Past, Future, and Conditional
Chapter 16: Been There, Done That: Talking in the Past Tense
Forming the Present Perfect Tense
Choosing Avere or Essere as Your Auxiliary Verb
Over and Done with: The Past Absolute
Once Upon a Time: The Imperfect Tense
Adding Nuance to Meaning with Verb Tense
Chapter 17: Reflexive Verbs in the Past
Looking at Commonly Used Reflexive Verbs
Forming the Present Perfect of Reflexive Verbs
Using Reciprocal Verbs in the Present Perfect
Forming the Imperfect of Reflexive Verbs
Checking Out Reciprocal Forms in the Imperfect
Chapter 18: Future Tense and Conditional Mood
Understanding Tense and Mood
Testing the Conditions: The Conditional Mood
Part V: Expressing Subjectivity and Giving Orders
Chapter 19: Dealing with Conditions Beyond Our Control: “If” Clauses and Passive Actions
Expressing Types of Conditionals
Putting a Personal Touch on the Impersonal and the Passive
Chapter 20: Getting into the Subjunctive Mood
Identifying When to Use the Subjunctive
Forming the Present Subjunctive
Taking a Closer Look at the Present Subjunctive
Forming the Imperfect Subjunctive
Chapter 21: Second-Guessing Your Actions with the Past Conditional
Forming the Past Conditional
Expressing What Might Have Been and What May Yet Be
Saying What You Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve Done
Chapter 22: I Hope That You’ve Had Fun! The Past Subjunctive
Forming the Subjunctive with Triggers
Piecing Together the Present Perfect Subjunctive
Constructing the Past Perfect (Pluperfect) Subjunctive
Sequencing Tenses in the Subjunctive
Part VI: The Part of Tens
Chapter 23: Ten Common Italian Grammar Mistakes (And How to Avoid Them)
Assuming Cognates Are What They Seem to Be
Confusing Conoscere and Sapere
Forgetting to Make Words Agree in Number and Gender
Overusing Possessive Adjectives
Pronouncing the Endings of Words Incorrectly
Repeating the Prepositions in Verbs That Already Include a Preposition
Translating Idioms Word by Word
Using Subject Pronouns Unnecessarily
Chapter 24: Ten Italian Expressions You’ll Use Every Day
Figurati or Non C’è Di Che
Buon Appetito and Altrettanto
Italian Grammar For Dummies
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