75: You have reason! How to say "you're right" in Italian
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🗓️ 8 December 2019
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Today's Italian words
Hai ragione = you’re right
Lo so = I know
Ho sempre ragione = I’m always right
Ha ragione = he/she’s right
Abbiamo ragione = we’re right
Avete ragione = youPlural are right
Hanno ragione = they’re right
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| 0:00.0 | Do you know how to say you're right in Italian? |
| 0:05.0 | As we started talking about last week, Italian has some funny expressions with have. |
| 0:11.0 | In this lesson, you'll learn a really important one, to be right or literally to have reason. |
| 0:30.3 | Ciao to all and welcome |
| 0:31.5 | a 5 minute Italian. |
| 0:32.9 | I'm Katie. |
| 0:33.5 | And then Matteo, |
| 0:34.5 | Ciao. |
| 0:35.2 | Last week, |
| 0:36.0 | we started talking about |
| 0:37.0 | some funny expressions with have in Italian. |
| 0:40.2 | For example, in Italian, we don't say I am hungry, we say I have hunger. |
| 0:48.1 | Or famine. |
| 0:50.3 | And I don't say I am my age, for example. |
| 0:56.4 | I am 36. I say I have my age. |
| 1:00.7 | Or 36, Anni. |
| 1:04.0 | In this episode, we're going to look at another really useful phrase that follows the same logic. |
| 1:09.6 | Let's listen to a mini conversation that happens often in our |
| 1:13.0 | house. I have a ragione. So whenever I say to Matteo you're right, I write, he always likes to |
| 1:26.8 | reply with. I know. I'm always right. |
| 1:30.3 | That's why I try not to say it that often. |
| 1:33.3 | So to say you're right, Italians literally say you have reason. |
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