Italian to English examples

Voglio imparare l'inglese rapidamente.

→ I want to learn English quickly.

Italian drops the subject pronoun 'Io' (I) — the verb ending shows who is speaking. English always requires the subject pronoun. Italian speakers often forget this early on.

Studio inglese da tre anni.

→ I have been studying English for three years.

Italian uses the present tense with 'da' for ongoing situations — similar to French and Spanish. English uses the present perfect continuous.

Puoi parlare più lentamente, per favore?

→ Can you speak more slowly, please?

The structure is very similar. Italian and English share a similar question-with-auxiliary pattern here.

Se avessi studiato di più, avrei superato l'esame.

→ If I had studied more, I would have passed the exam.

Italian past subjunctive maps closely to the English third conditional. This is one area where Italian and English align well structurally.

L'inglese è una lingua molto importante.

→ English is a very important language.

Very similar sentence structure. Italian and English share SVO order and both require the verb 'to be' here — unlike Russian or Arabic.