Radio Arlecchino
July 23, 2007
Episode 8:  Imperative - Your call is important to us
Your call is important to us

Your call is important to us

In Your call is important to us, we begin looking at l'imperativo - one of the four formal verbal moods in Italian.  The imperative is used to issue direct commands: you tell someone to do (or not to do) something.  When you address someone formally in Italian, you use the third-person subjunctive, and that's a rather indirect method.  In this episode, we're looking at the 'true' imperative, for first and second person. Let's listen as Antonella phones home from the Villa Borghese in Italy ...
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