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day 1happy new year!

unit 1 · back in Bologna

    happy new year!

    Tell a friend how your holidays went with the most common irregular past forms: ho fatto, ho visto, ho preso, sono rimasta.

    today’s words

    • Capodanno · New Year (31 Dec and 1 Jan)
    • passare · to spend (time); to pass; to drop by
    • rimanere · to stay, to remain
    • sembrare · to seem, to look
    • appena · just (a moment ago); as soon as
    • finalmente · at last, finally
    • davvero · really
    • raccontare · to tell (a story, what happened)
    • la notizia · piece of news
    • il volo · flight
    • il/la parente · relative, relation
    • il ghiaccio · ice
    • la nostalgia · homesickness; nostalgia
    • proprio · really, just, exactly

    sentences

    • Finalmente sono tornata a Bologna! · I'm back in Bologna at last!
    • Ho passato il Natale a Toronto con i miei parenti. · I spent Christmas in Toronto with my relatives.
    • Sono rimasta lì due settimane. · I stayed there for two weeks.
    • Ho visto la neve e il ghiaccio sul lago. · I saw the snow and the ice on the lake.
    • Ho preso il volo per Bologna il 30 dicembre. · I took the flight to Bologna on 30 December.