Learn how to use the verb dovere
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| INTRODUCTION |
| Marco: Hello, everyone! Marco here! Beginner series Season 1, Lesson 18 - Using the Italian Imperative: Wake Them Up! Hello and welcome to ItalianPod101.com. My name is Marco and I’m joined here by Cinzia. Come stai, Cinzia? |
| Cinzia: Benissimo, Marco, grazie! Today, we have the 18th lesson of our beginner series. |
| Marco: The series focuses on the essentials of Italian for anyone who wants to start learning. |
| Cinzia: So join us for this lesson of ItalianPod101.com. |
| Marco: In this lesson, we shall see the uses of the verb "dovere." |
| Cinzia: This conversation takes place in an Italian house. |
| Marco: And it is between Elena and Anna. |
| Cinzia: They’re friends, therefore, they will be speaking informal Italian. In today’s lesson, I will be Elena and I will be Anna. |
| Marco: And I will be resting today. |
| Cinzia: Okay. |
| DIALOGUE |
| Elena: Anna, svegliati! Oggi hai molte cose da fare! |
| Anna: Che ore sono? |
| Elena: Sono le sette. Devi andare al museo. |
| Anna: Ahh... Ho sonno. |
| Elena: Dai, dai, svegliati! |
| Marco: Let's hear it slowly now. |
| Cinzia: Ascoltiamolo lentamente. |
| Elena: Anna, svegliati! Oggi hai molte cose da fare! |
| Anna: Che ore sono? |
| Elena: Sono le sette. Devi andare al museo. |
| Anna: Ahh... Ho sonno. |
| Elena: Dai, dai, svegliati! |
| Marco: And now, with the translation. |
| Cinzia: E ora, con la traduzione. |
| Elena: Anna, svegliati! Oggi hai molte cose da fare! |
| Elena: Anna, wake up! Today you have many things to do! |
| Anna: Che ore sono? |
| Anna: What time is it? |
| Elena: Sono le sette. Devi andare al museo. |
| Elena: It's 7:00. You have to go to the museum. |
| Anna: Ahh... Ho sonno. |
| Anna: Ahh...I'm sleepy. |
| Elena: Dai, dai, svegliati! |
| Elena: Come on, come on, get up! |
| POST CONVERSATION BANTER |
| Marco: Whoa, I’m so tired of doing all those voices. |
| Cinzia: Look at this guy, my god! Doing nothing and is always taking all the glory. |
| Marco: Just an innocent joke. Anyway, congratulations Cinzia for having two split personalities, yes! |
| Cinzia: Didn’t you know? I have more than two personalities, Marco. |
| Marco: I just know two and they’re enough. |
| Cinzia: So, let’s do this, Marco, because I did all the dialogue on my own, you will do all the vocabulary on your own. |
| Marco: But without your voice, listeners will desert me. Nobody likes my voice. |
| Cinzia: See! You need me. You need my voice and I should take all the glory. |
| Marco: You can have all the glory, but let’s get down to business. |
| Cinzia: Okay, let’s move on. |
| Marco: Let’s take a look at today’s vocabulary. |
| VOCAB LIST |
| Marco: First… |
| Cinzia: svegliati [natural native speed] |
| Marco: wake up |
| Cinzia: svegliati [slowly - broken down by syllable] svegliati [natural native speed] |
| Marco: Next |
| Cinzia: oggi [natural native speed] |
| Marco: today |
| Cinzia: oggi [slowly - broken down by syllable] oggi [natural native speed] |
| Marco: Next |
| Cinzia: molte [natural native speed] |
| Marco: many |
| Cinzia: molte [slowly - broken down by syllable] molte [natural native speed] |
| Marco: Next |
| Cinzia: cose [natural native speed] |
| Marco: things |
| Cinzia: cose [slowly - broken down by syllable] cose [natural native speed] |
| Marco: Next |
| Cinzia: ore [natural native speed] |
| Marco: hours |
| Cinzia: ore [slowly - broken down by syllable] ore [natural native speed] |
| Marco: Next |
| Cinzia: dovere [natural native speed] |
| Marco: to have to, must |
| Cinzia: dovere [slowly - broken down by syllable] dovere [natural native speed] |
| Marco: Next |
| Cinzia: andare [natural native speed] |
| Marco: to go |
| Cinzia: andare [slowly - broken down by syllable] andare [natural native speed] |
| Marco: Next |
| Cinzia: museo [natural native speed] |
| Marco: museum |
| Cinzia: museo [slowly - broken down by syllable] museo [natural native speed] |
| Marco: And last word… |
| Cinzia: sonno [natural native speed] |
| Marco: sleep |
| Cinzia: sonno [slowly - broken down by syllable] sonno [natural native speed] |
| VOCAB AND PHRASE USAGE |
| Cinzia: And now, let’s take a look at the usage for some of the words and expressions. |
| Marco: What is the first word? |
| Cinzia: Svegliati, and the example sentence is - Svegliati perchè è tardi! |
| Marco: "Wake up because it's late!" |
| Cinzia: And the next word is molte. |
| Marco: And the example sentence is… |
| Cinzia: Molte famiglie italiane hanno due macchine. |
| Marco: "Many Italian families have two cars." And it’s true, isn’t it? |
| Cinzia: Yes, of course! |
| Marco: Two cars, maybe a scooter, two scooters. |
| Cinzia: Well, don’t exaggerate, Marco, but yes, having two cars for an average Italian family can be very common. |
| Marco: Yes. One reason is that we don’t have so many public transportations. In the past years, public transportation has developed enormously, but usually, people like to go, for example, to the sea or in the mountains with their own car. |
| Cinzia: And because not all the places are well connected, most families have cars, and normally, one is little and the other one is the family car. |
| Marco: Yeah, family size, king size! |
| Cinzia: Yes, exactly. |
| Marco: Even though, with the price of petrol so high, also in Italy, many families are having difficulty using their cars. |
| Cinzia: Yeah, this is true, actually. But let’s take a look at the next word, Marco. |
| Marco: Which is, Cinzia? |
| Cinzia: ore |
| Marco: And the example sentence is… |
| Cinzia: Quante ore di lezione hai? |
| Marco: “How many hours of lessons do you have?” |
| Cinzia: The next word is andare. |
| Marco: And the example sentence is… |
| Cinzia: Vorrei andare a ballare. |
| Marco: “I would like to go dancing.” |
| Cinzia: Next word is museo. |
| Marco: And the example sentence is… |
| Cinzia: Vorrei visitare il museo del Prado. |
| Marco: “I would like to visit the Prado Museum.” Where is the Prado Museum? |
| Cinzia: Come on, Marco! Don’t you know where it is? |
| Marco: Uh…no. |
| Cinzia: It’s in Spain. |
| Marco: Um…never been there. |
| Cinzia: Really? |
| Marco: Yep. |
| Cinzia: Oh! This is such a shame, Marco. |
| Marco: Yes, especially because Spain is so close to Italy. You can actually take the train and go all the way to Spain. |
| Cinzia: It’s close and Spain is full of wonderful things to see. |
| Marco: But not like Italy, right? |
| Cinzia: Um…well… |
| Marco: Company protocol! |
| Cinzia: I didn’t say anything. |
| Marco Company protocol. |
| Cinzia: Stop this guy. |
| Marco: Anyway, many Italians like to go on vacation in Spain, especially Spanish islands. And disco freaks, I mean the tuns, tuns, tuns, tu- tu- tuns, tuns, like to go… |
| Cinzia: Ibiza. |
| Marco: Why that face? Bad sounds? |
| Cinzia: Yes. What do you mean with that sound, tuns, tuns, tuns, tu- tu- tuns? |
| Marco: Dance, trans music, I don’t know. |
| Cinzia: Oh, okay, which I don’t like. |
| Marco: Let’s look at the last word. |
| Cinzia: And the last word is sonno. |
| Marco: And the last example sentence is… |
| Cinzia: Non ho per niente sonno. |
| Marco: “I am not sleepy at all.” |
Lesson focus |
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| Marco: Today, we will take a look at the important verb dovere that in its present indicative conjugation means… |
| Cinzia: “to have to/must” |
| Marco: So, before we go any further, let’s take a look at its conjugation. So Cinzia, take it from here. |
| Cinzia: Io devo |
| Marco: “I have to/must” |
| Cinzia: Tu devi |
| Marco: “You have to/must” |
| Cinzia: Lui/lei deve |
| Marco: “He/she has to/must” |
| Cinzia: Noi dobbiamo |
| Marco: "We have to/must" |
| Cinzia: Voi dovete |
| Marco: "You have to/must" |
| Cinzia: Loro devono |
| Marco: "They have to/must." So, what is the usage for this verb, the verb dovere in the presente indicativo tense? |
| Cinzia: Normally, it’s used to give orders to someone. |
| Marco: Or give very strong suggestions, right? |
| Cinzia: Yes. |
| Marco: Just like the English, “to have to” or “you must.” |
| Cinzia: Yes. I wouldn’t use it in the formal language. |
| Marco: In the formal language, we would use the condizionale, the conditional mode, but we will see it in later lessons. So, for example, “You have to drink water,” how do we say that in Italian? |
| Cinzia: Devi bere acqua. |
| Marco: And what about “I have to study Italian”? |
| Cinzia: Devo studiare Italiano. |
| Marco: Mm, not difficult. Not even studying Italian is difficult. |
| Cinzia: Mm, not at all. |
| Marco: But if we look at the conjugation of the verb dovere in its presente indicativo, that is “present indicative,” we see that there is one form, the “we” form that is first person plural that is slightly strange, isn’t it? |
| Cinzia: Yes. It is dobbiamo, be careful. |
| Marco: Yes, dobbiamo, two (b)s in there, okay? Dobbiamo. |
| Cinzia: Right. |
Outro |
| Marco: So let’s close today’s lesson with “You have to write comments.” |
| Cinzia: Dovete scrivere commenti. |
| Marco: And it is Cinzia saying it after all the work she put in in today’s dialogue with two voices. Please, listen to her and write some more comments. |
| Cinzia: Yes, please. |
| Marco: Okay. Ciao, ciao! |
| Cinzia: Ciao a tutti! |
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