Italian Skill:Clitic Pronouns

Clitic Pronouns
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Clitics-1 is the 26th skill (assuming read left to right) in the Italian language course. It has 3 lessons.

Grammar Notes

This skill teaches Clitic pronouns. A Clitic is an "unstressed word, typically a function word, that is incapable of standing on its own and attaches in pronunciation to a stressed word, with which it forms a single accentual unit".

Lessons

Lesson 1 - questionnaire: What?

• me = me (indirect object)
• mi = me (direct or indirect object)
• te = you (sg.) (indirect object)
• ti = you (sg.) (direct object)
• vi = you (pl.) (direct object)
• lo = it/him (direct object)
• the difference between these pronouns (strong and clitic) is the position in the sentence before or after the verb. Me /te/lui-lei-/noi/voi/loro are strong indirect object pronouns and they go after a verb or after a preposition. Mi/ti/lo-la/ci/vi/li/le are weak pronouns. They are clitic pronouns. They are placed before a finite verb or merge with an infinitive or imperative. Non lo so! I don't know it! - Fallo! Do it!

Lesson 2 - questionnaire: Whom? To whom?

• la = her (direct object)
• le = her (indirect object)
• gli = he/him (direct object)
• l' = him (indirect object)
• li = them (direct object)

Lesson 3

• si = we (direct object)
• ci = us (indirect object/dative case)
• se = he/she/it (direct object)
• ce = he/she/it (indirect object)
• ne = it