Guys and girls! Here's my list of the top 100 Italian 5-grams.

I have already made posts with lists of the top 100 English 5-grams and the top 100 French 5-grams. And as I am studying a bit of Italian at the moment (and more or less living in Italy, as I'm spending most of my time in Tuscany this month), I decided to also make the list in Italian.

In the illustration below you can see the top 100 5-grams in the Italian language according to my study.

 

I also tried translating the first 20 phrases, but don't know how much luck I had with that (machine translation:-) Anyways, it might be helpful too, so here it is:

1  da un punto di vista - from a point of view

2  dal punto di vista della - from the point of view of

3  da questo punto di vista - from this point of view

4  nella maggior parte dei casi - in most cases

5  data di entrata in vigore - date of entry into force

6  in tutto o in parte - in whole or in part

7  per la prima volta in - for the first time in

8  dal punto di vista del - from the point of view of the

9  non è in grado di - It is not able to

10  sia dal punto di vista - both from the point of view

11  di una vera e propria - of a real

12  gli uni e gli altri - the one and the other

13  paesi in via di sviluppo - developing countries

14  anche dal punto di vista - also from the point of view

15  di entrata in vigore della - of entry into force of

16  per la prima volta nel - for the first time in

17  di un vero e proprio - of a real

18  nella seconda metà del secolo - in the second half of the century

19  in vigore della presente legge - into force of this Act

20  a mano a mano che - to as they

For those of you who are not familiar with ngrams, here's a short explanation: An ngram is any sequence of n number of words that you may find in a text. A 2-gram for instance consists of 2 word, and a 5-gram consists of 5 words. It's used for studying languages statistically in computer science and so on, but I found out that it's really helpful (for me at least) to use them to learn languages! Pretty nerdy and pretty awesome, don't you think?

I did the study using data from ngramfinder.com!

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I'm trying to learn to use the Italian verb "stare" together with the gerundio form of different verbs. So to do this, I made a little study on ngramfinder.com to find the most common uses of "sto" together with words ending ind "-ndo".

This is what I found:


I also searched for the most common uses of "sta", "stiamo", and "stanno" together with words endning in -ndo:  




For those of you interested in doing your own studies, this is an example of how I searched for the phrases:




As always, feel free to like, love, comment, and share to keep the Italian gerundio alive! :-)

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Studying Italian verbs can be a drag! So I prefer to focus on the most useful verbs and tenses. In this table I've put together the tenses you hear the most of the 20 most useful Italian verbs.


We’ve also written some neat example sentences that may be helpful for you, if you want to study these particular verbs. Take a listen in our free Italian audio course below!




Page 5 from our free e-book, with the first few sentences from the free Italian audio lesson:



For a full list of example sentences for the 20 verbs above, feel free to subscribe to our mailing list to download our free e-book (don't worry - we will not spam you! :-)




And as always, feel free to like, love, comment, and share - for the sake of humanity! :-)

I'm learning Italian and just stumbled upon this illustration showing some commonly used Italian reflexive verbs and pronominal verbs:



You can see the English translation of those ten verbs in the table below:




So... I couldn't help it, I had to make some example sentences to study those verbs.



See also: 20 most common Italian verbs

Notice (!!) that it's only in some of the example sentences above that the verbs are used as reflexive or pronominal verbs (mi sveglio, lavarmi, mi faccio la barba, mi trucco, vestirmi, spogliarsi, correre mi, si è laureato).

In two of the examples, however, the verbs are not used as reflexive verbs (no. 3. i miei capelli sono impossibili da pettinare, and no. 9. quel cane è arrabbiato con me).

So.. that said, let's practise the pronunciation! I asked my girlfriend to read them aloud for me, so I can study them while she's helping in her mom's shop :-)





See also: Italian phrases with stare and gerundio

I also made a small list containing some more useful Italian pronominal and reflexive verbs. The list is ordered by frequency, so that the most frequently used words - farsi, mettersi, muoversi etc. - are at the top. I found the frequency of each word on my site http://ngramfinder.com/:


Notice that all of the Italian verbs in the table above have the ending -arsi, -ersi, or -irsi. However, some of those verbs are reflexive and some are only pronominal.

See also: Italian interjections and small conversation phrases

Only those verbs where the subject is performing the act on itself are reflexive verbs - for example lavarsi (to wash oneself), pettinarsi (to comb one's hair), and chiamarsi (to be called/to call onself).

And finally... if you just can't get enough of Italian reflexive verbs, I've gathered these links for you too:



Thanks for sharing, liking, and loving this post to keep Italian pronominal and reflexive verbs alive all around the world :D