I'm trying to understand them in the sense of articulated prepositions. Any help would be truly appreciated!
2007-01-30 05:55:40 · 4 answers · asked by Nazi D 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
As first you need to correct yr sentence.
The prepositions you've posted are "simple prepositions" and not 'articulate'. The articulate one are those formed by a simple preposition + the determinative article (il,lo,la, gli,ecc.).
The Italian simple prepositions are :
DI = of
A = to
DA = from
IN = in
CON = with
SU = on
PER =for
TRA and FRA = between, among.
These are the main meanings but any of them,depending on the context, can be translated in a few different ways into English.
A few articulates prepositions are AL - ALLA - DAL - NEL -NEI - COL - COI - SUL - SUI etc.etc.
2007-01-30 06:59:17 · answer #1 · answered by martox45 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
According to my Italian textbook (so I could give you a better answer than off the top of my head), "da" means "from, by; at (to) the place of; with; since", 'di" means "of", "a" means "to" or "at", "in" means "in" and "su" means "on, come on, about".
The articulated prepositions are prepositions that combine with a definite article - singular and plural. So, if you wanted to say "in the house," you would combine "in" with "the" to make "nella casa." Hope this helps!
2007-01-30 14:10:35 · answer #2 · answered by gryffindor_lupin 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
di and da, as far as i can tell, both mean of and from but for male and female respectively.
2007-01-30 14:06:37 · answer #3 · answered by somebody 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
these conjunctions have varied translations depending on the context.
2007-01-30 16:02:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋