Comments on: Giorno or Giornata?

By: Serena

Serena — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:58:48 +0000

Salve Ian. Yes, you are right: the same concept applies to “sera” vs “serata”, “mattina” vs “mattinata”, and “notte” vs “nottata”. In fact we say “fare la nottata” to mean that we are doing a night shift or we are looking after somebody ill for the night. Interestingly, we don’t have another word for “pomeriggio”.
Arrivederci!

By: Serena

Serena — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:53:25 +0000

Salve Jane, the correct translation for “beautiful place” is “bel posto”. If you would like to find out more about the use of “bello”, you can read my blog:

http://www.transparent.com/italian/buono-o-bello/

Arrivederci!

By: natasha

natasha — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:24:13 +0000

Great idea, Vince. I will talk to Serena to see what we can come up with.

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:50:26 +0000

Very insightful.
I guess the same concept applies to la sera (eg buona sera vs buona serata).

By: Vince Mooney

Vince Mooney — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:16:04 +0000

Salve Serena:

What is your policy (or company policy) on using material in your posts to make Byki lists that can be shared on List Central? The more indiums explained in a post, the more I like it. This post is a gold mine of idioms.

A list of the use of the words ‘giornata’ and ‘giorno’ would be very helpful. I’d love to remember everything in your post but I would not be able to do it without frequent reinforcement. I wish I had Byki when I was in college!

Thanks

Vince