Hi everybody,
I'm a new entry, I found this forum today, surfing the web.
I'm italian too, I live in Trieste, it's on the upper-right corner of Italy, very close to the border with Slovenia.
I've been in Japan for 1 month last year, and decided to learn japanese after that.
Probably because I was not able to say "hello, let's go for a beer" to all those awesome girls I met in Japan...
Gattaccia, sei mai stata a Trieste?
8 anni sono un bel periodo, Cosa ti è piaciuto di più dell'Italia?
Che lavoro fai/hai fatto in questi 8 anni?
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Originally Posted by Suki
So is 'the' strictly necessary? Are nouns always preceded by an article?
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Most of the times, yes.
However there are cases we don't use articles as well.
The use or not of an article gives sense to the phrase.
Look.
All the sentences below have the same meaning. They go drink wine.
Each case is slightly different though.
Vanno a bere vino. - They go drink wine. lit.
Vanno a bere del vino. - They go drink some wine
Vanno a bere il vino. - They go drink "the" wine (this points that we know what wine they're going to drink, 4ex. the wine in the kitchen)
Vanno a bere un bicchiere di vino. - They go drink a glass of wine (which is almost never just one, but we use to say so)