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Is It a Question?

Asking questions in Italian is easy! Just pronounce any statement as a question.

Statement	Question
È un uccello. It’s a bird.	È un uccello? Is it a bird?

Did you notice that it uses the same verb form as he and she? That might come in handy!

Z as in Zoo

The letter z in Italian has two different sounds.

zoo
it sounds like dz, as in “clouds”

zucchero
it sounds like ts, as in “nets”

There’s no general rule, so you’ll have to remember how z sounds in the most common Italian words. When z isn’t the first letter of a word, it sounds longer and stronger. Same thing for double z.

colazione
as in “pizza”, but longer

tazza
as in “pizza”, but longer

Nello Zoo

In Italian, you will come across many word combinations. Nel and nello are a couple of them. Let's see how they are formed.

in + il	nel
in + lo	nello

For example, you can see these combinations used to talk about the location of people, animals, and objects.

La mosca è nel bicchiere.
The fly is in the glass.

La scimmia è nello zoo.
The monkey is in the zoo.