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By Joseph F. Privitera

The Sicilian dialect, like lots of the different 450 Italian dialects, has nearly disappeared within the Nineties. This grammar is designed to maintain the dialect for these first and moment iteration Sicilians who're frightened to keep up touch with the language.

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39 3. Adverbs of Quantity assai, a lot, much, enough tantu, much, so much troppu, too much, too pocu, little, small, few tuttu, all, whole, entire Ti voli ben' assa i. Sugnu troppu stancu. He is very fond of you. / am too tired. 4. Adverbs of Manner (a) Adverbs of manner are formed by adding the suffix -menti to the feminine form of the adjective. chiaru, clear frsincu,frank chiaramenti, clearly francamente frankly However, Sicilians prefer using the adjective as an adverb. Unn pozzu v /diri troppu b o n u.

Chi bellu paisi! What a beautiful country! 27 C. M quali is inflected (a quali, i quali). Chi and cui are invariable: in general chi is used only as subject and direct object, cui only after prepositions or as indirect object. A lingua chi si parrà ca. L'omudicui si tratta. I f/mmini a cui or ai quali parru. Uscrittudi cui parru. The language spoken here. The man of whom we are speaking. The women to whom I speak. The writing of which I speak. 1. As subject or direct object chi is preferred to u quali, unless clearnessrequiresthe latter.

Irregular: bonu, well; megghiu, better; u megghiu, the best malu, bad; peggiu, worse; u peggiu, the worst Sì, no. còmu Yes is si. No is no. What? meaning what do you say? is còmu ? Chi is often used to introduce questions. Pirchi unn rispunni? Còmu? Chi sì surdu? Why don't you answer? What? Are you deaf? 41 VAL The Verb System Like Italian, Sicilian has three conjugations: I - ari; II - iriri; m - iri. But it has fewer tenses than Italian. These are: present indicative, imperfect, preterite, present perfect, pluperfect, imperfect subjunctive, and past perfect subjunctive.

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