How to use the preposition 'da' | A Coffee Break with Francesca

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🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Here at Coffee Break Italian, we're currently enjoying working on our next podcast series for you, but in the meantime, we hope you enjoy this mini espresso lesson with Francesca.

In this episode, we're taking a closer look at the incredibly useful preposition da. It may be small, but it plays a big role in Italian and can have a range of meanings depending on the context. You’ll learn how to use it:

➡️ in time expressions

➡️ to express purpose

➡️ to tell which city you are from

➡️ to talk about being at or going to someone's place or shop

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0:00.0	Ciao to all and chow a t'all
0:02.0	a t'all.
0:03.0	I'm Francesca from the Coffee Break Italian team
0:07.0	and I'm happy to join you for a coffee break.
0:12.0	That's right, I'm here to bring you a little espresso episode
0:18.0	in between main seasons of coffee break Italian.
0:23.9	All right.
0:25.3	Today, I want to talk about a parolina,
0:30.2	a little,
0:30.8	but very important in Italian.
0:35.9	The preposition da. That's right.
0:39.2	We are going to look at the
0:41.1	preposition da
0:42.4	and consider some
0:44.9	of its most important
0:47.5	meanings and functions
0:49.5	in Italian.
0:51.9	All right, let's
0:53.3	see us in Italian. All right, let's see in Sime.
1:04.2	So first of all, let me tell you that I decided to talk about Da because recently I introduced this preposition in one of my beginners classes.
1:12.8	My intention was just to cover its function of expressing origin.
1:20.6	Infact, probably, you probably know that we can use the preposition da
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