Italian Grammar: Si Impersonale

Si is an important pronoun, and there are a few different ways it can be used. Let's learn the si impersonale.

Script by Patrizia Farina, Professor of Italian at Western Connecticut State University and Purchase College.

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[Alwpiano]

Not only helpful with the whole Si thing but with the words never and but. I often got confused. Seeing them in one sentence together, in context, helped. Never always goes at the end.

[RaiseAK]

Whatch out. If si reflexive is with another reflexive verb it becomes se (se is "if" too). For example:
He takes an ice cream -> lui si prende un gelato.
He takes it -> lui se lo prende.

[janeyre]

Alright, though some of the examples you gave can't actually be classified as "SI impersonale", rather as "SI passivante" (at 2:27, 2:59 and 5:36), 'cause they can be correcly replaced by an equivalent ordinary passive sentence.

[step]

Bravo Dave,
Mi fa piacere che fai lezioni di italiano.
Io sono italiano e per me è davvero strano vedere questi video😂😂😂👍👍
Continua così!!!!👍👍

[Blueberry-zkib]

0:44 but when did u explain that? plz answer

[chrisabc]

Professor Dave, Can i say " quando se lo spezza" for "when you break it" ?

[sabahrashid]

I want to ask a question can I ask you?

[hobaelala]

Si to depart i'd have to arrive but if we don't know when one arrives shouldn't we say also that we don't know when you depart

[niccolowadia]

Hi, the construction of CI + SI is a bit ??? can you explain a bit better PL. !!! THNX

[mohammadmandeel]

It looks like just in French when we use the pronoun "on"..
Si dice = on dit = it's said...
Please correct me.

[MidunOdunaiya]

how is the same guy that taught me quantum mechanics last week teaching me Italian 😭

[الحمدللهكثيرا-وظ]

Grazie mille ma si mangia tre gelati !! É impersonale non ??

[theophonchana]

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[shanw]

Zio, dove sei stato? Mi sto iscrivendo. :D

[kristiyaniliev]

...ma se dico: "Ci si va in macchina?" (Per esempio in montagna) è un altro caso, non è vero? "Ci" non sostituisce "si"...

[theophonchana]

#reflexive_pronoun #impersonal_pronoun #impersonal_reflexive_pronoun