81: How to talk about lunch and dinner in Italian

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🗓️ 19 April 2020

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In English we can “have lunch” and “have dinner”, but not in Italian! Find out how to talk about having lunch and having dinner in this mini lesson.

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Today's Italian words

Mangio un panino = I have/eat a sandwich
Mangio = I eat
Un = a
Panino = sandwich
Bevo una birra = I drink a beer
Bevo = I drink
Una = a
Birra = beer
Pranzare = to have lunch (lit. to lunch)
Pranzo = I have lunch (lit. I lunch)
Pranzi = You have lunch (lit. You lunch)
Pranza = he/she/you formal has lunch (lit. he/she lunches)
Pranziamo = We have lunch (lit. we lunch)
Pranzate = You plural have lunch (lit. you plural lunch)
Pranzano = They have lunch (lit. they lunch)
Pranzo all’una = I have lunch at one
Pranziamo all’una = We have lunch at one
In Italia pranziamo all’una = In Italy, we have lunch at one
In Italia pranzano all’una = In Italy, they have lunch at one
In Italia pranzano a casa = In Italy, they have lunch at home
Cenare = to have dinner (lit. to dine)
Ceno = I have dinner (lit. I dine)
Ceni = You have dinner (lit. you dine)
Cena = He/she/you formal has dinner (lit. he/she dines)

Ceniamo = We have dinner (lit. we dine)
Cenate = You plural have dinner (lit. you plural dine)
Cenano = they have dinner (lit. they dine)
Ceno alle otto = I have dinner at eight
Ceniamo alle otto = We have dinner at eight
In Italia ceniamo alle otto = In Italy, we have dinner at eight
In Italia cenano alle otto = In Italy, they have dinner at eight
In Italia cenano tardi = In Italy, they have dinner late

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0:00.0	In English, we have lunch and have dinner, but Italians don't say it like this. They say lunch and dine. Find out how to talk about having lunch and dinner in episode 81 of 5 Minutes Italian. Ciao to all and bea-tutti and
0:26.6	Benvenutti a Five Minutes Italian I'm Katie and then Matteo,
0:30.6	Ciao!
0:31.6	Last week we talked about how in Italian you can't use have to talk about consuming food and drink. You have to give the specific
0:40.3	word. So if you want to say I have a sandwich, you'd actually say I eat a sandwich.
0:47.3	Manjo a panino. Manjo. I eat a panino sandwich.
0:57.0	And if you want to say I have a beer, you'd actually say I drink a beer.
1:02.0	Bevo a beer.
1:05.0	I drink a beer.
1:10.0	And something very similar happens with lunch and dinner.
1:14.6	So we can't say to have lunch or to have dinner in Italian.
1:19.6	We actually have special words for these.
1:21.6	And the interesting thing is we have them in English too, but they're not used much anymore. So for example, to say to
1:29.1	have lunch, I can say I lunch, such as ladies who lunch. But in Italian, that's still the most
1:37.1	common way to say it. So to say I have lunch, we literally say to lunch. And to say have dinner, we literally say to lunch and to say have dinner we literally say to dine so to lunch in
1:49.1	italian is pranzare and we can change the endings to tell us who is lunching for example i lunch would
1:57.8	be pranzu. You lunch?
2:01.6	Pranzi.
2:02.6	He or she lunches or you lunch in the formal address.
2:06.6	These are all the same.
2:08.6	Pranzah.
2:09.6	We lunch.
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