Beginner Course - Grammar Lessons
11. Prepositions Part 2 - Le preposizioni articolate
The prepositions di, a, da, in, su can be combined with definite articles when talking about a specific object, and thus become prepositional contractions. They follow the same rules of definite articles, which we explained in this video, but here we see them all again with plenty of examples. Anna also explains in detail when to use simple prepositions and when to use prepositional contractions.
To see al this in context, we read together a short text about a very Italian brand: Ferrari.
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In this lesson:
- How to form prepositional contractions
- Functions of prepositional contractions
- The partitive article
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