71: Geloso vs. invidioso: How to say jealous in Italian
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🗓️ 29 September 2019
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Today's Italian words
Sono geloso = I’m jealous (a man talking about “love” jealousy)
Sono gelosa = I’m jealous (a woman talking about “love” jealousy)
Sono invidioso = I’m jealous (a man talking about “I want what you have” jealousy)
Sono invidiosa = I’m jealous (a woman talking about “I want what you have” jealousy)
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| 0:00.0 | Did you know Italian has two different words for jealous, jelloso and invidioso. |
| 0:07.0 | But watch out because they're not interchangeable. |
| 0:10.0 | Find out the difference in episodei a 5 minute Italian. |
| 0:28.6 | And I'm Mateo. |
| 0:29.6 | Ciao! |
| 0:30.6 | This week's episode is dedicated to Kathy Coventry, Vahagen, Lisa, Joe and Susanna, who came along to our immersion in Florence, |
| 0:41.0 | and were all part of an interesting conversation we had about the word jealous in Italian. |
| 0:47.6 | One evening, a few students climbed up to the top of the dome on the cathedral in Florence with |
| 0:52.2 | our teacher Stefano, while the others came |
| 0:55.0 | with me for pre-dinner drinks. So we were sitting in a cafe having a beer, or I was sitting |
| 1:01.1 | in a cafe having a beer with Joe, Lisa and Susanna. And we got this message on our WhatsApp group |
| 1:06.7 | from the students who'd climbed up to the top with a picture of the beautiful views that they |
| 1:10.6 | could see of the beautiful views that they could |
| 1:10.8 | see of the sunset over the rooftops in Florence. And we were chatting in Italian and Lisa made a joke |
| 1:18.5 | and she wanted to say that they sent the photo to make us jealous. But commisiliche jealous in Italian. |
| 1:27.2 | How do you say jealous in Italian? |
| 1:30.5 | And this started an interesting conversation about how there are actually two words in Italian. |
| 1:36.3 | So what are they and how are they different? |
| 1:39.7 | In Italian we have two different kinds of jealousy. The first is how you feel when you are in love. |
| 1:48.0 | If you are worried your boyfriend or girlfriend, your husband or wife is attracted to someone else, we use jelloso. |
| 1:59.0 | So, for example, if I was paranoid and worried that Katie was in love with another man, I'd say, |
| 2:07.6 | I'm jealous. |
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