43: Capeesh?! The other -ire verbs in Italian
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🗓️ 22 April 2018
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You know "capeesh?!" from gangster movies? Turns out it's not Italian! Learn how Italians really use the verb "capire" (understand) + other -ire verbs.
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Today’s Italian Words and Phrases
Capisco il francese = I understand French
Ma non lo parlo = But I don’t speak it.
Capisco = I understand
Pulisco = I clean
Finisco = I finish
Perché lo capisci ma non lo parli? = Why do you understand it but you don’t speak it? (literally: why it understand, but not it you speak?)
Capisci = You understand
Pulisci = You clean
Finisci = You finish
Non mi capiscono = They don’t understand me
Capiscono = They understand
Puliscono = They clean
Finiscono = They finish
Capisce = He/she understands; You understand (formal)
Pulisce = He/she cleans; You clean (formal)
Finisce = He/she finishes; You finish (formal)
Capiamo = we understand
Puliamo = we clean
Finiamo = we finish
Capite = you all understand (plural you)
Pulite = you all clean (plural you)
Finite = you all finish (plural you)
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| 0:00.0 | You know in gangster movies where the mobster yells, capish, right before working his business |
| 0:06.9 | partner around the head with a wrench and throwing him in a garbage truck? |
| 0:11.5 | As a fan of the sopranos and goodfellers, before I moved to Italy, capish, meaning understand, |
| 0:17.7 | was one of the few Italian words I knew, but it turns out it's not actually Italian. |
| 0:23.9 | Learn how Italians really use the verb capire to understand and some other handy Iere verbs, including |
| 0:31.6 | pulire to clean and finire to finish in episode 43 of 5 Minute Italian. |
| 0:53.2 | Hi everyone and welcome at Five Minute Italian. |
| 0:55.0 | Hi everyone and welcome to Five Minute Italian. I'm Katie. |
| 0:58.0 | And there Matteo, Ciao. |
| 1:00.0 | And before we start today's episode, we've got a little confession for you. |
| 1:05.0 | Yeah, we're sorry, but we lied to you. |
| 1:09.0 | Yeah, we lied. Sorry. We said that there were three groups of verbs in Italian. |
| 1:14.6 | Verbs which end in are, verbs which end in Ere, and verbs which end in Iere. |
| 1:20.6 | But there are actually four groups. |
| 1:23.6 | That's right, because verbs which end in ire are split in two groups. |
| 1:31.3 | That means that when you see a verb which ends in I-R-E, like Dormire to sleep, |
| 1:38.3 | it could follow the pattern that you learned in the last few episodes, but it might not. |
| 1:43.3 | And that's because there's a different I-e different ire pattern that we haven't talked about yet. |
| 1:48.0 | This pattern is used in verbs like, |
| 1:50.0 | capire, which means to understand. |
| 1:54.0 | First we'll listen to a dialogue with this verb, then we'll talk about how to use it. |
| 1:58.0 | Capisco, |
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