Day 17 of 30
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Your daily life — reflexive verbs. reflexive verbs
Day 10 gave you plain verbs and a first taste of routine. Today's family — reflexive verbs — is for the actions that come back to you: 'mi sveglio' (I wake up), 'mi lavo' (I wash), 'mi vesto' (I get dressed). You already met one on Day 2: 'mi chiamo' is a reflexive. You'll learn the pronoun set, string the verbs into a morning-to-night routine with prima / poi / dopo, meet the friendly 'each other' twist (ci vediamo, ci sentiamo), and hold a real conversation about a typical day.
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01Reflexive verbs
Use reflexive verbs — the ones where the action comes back to you.
8–10 min
02My daily routine
Walk through a whole day in Italian, from waking to winding down.
8–10 min
03Ci & each other
Use reflexives in their 'each other' meaning — the reciprocal.
8–10 min
04A typical day
Put it all together: describe a full typical day and hold a real conversation about routines.
8–10 min
The order words map straight onto Hindi
Sequencing a routine feels natural to Indians: prima = pehle (first), poi = phir (then), dopo = baad mein (after), infine = aakhir mein (finally). And the soft 'gli' in 'sveglio' is the Hindi 'ल्य' as in 'kalyan', so ZVEH-lyo comes almost for free. Hindi also does 'each other' without an extra word — 'hum milte hain' (we meet) — exactly like Italian's reciprocal 'ci incontriamo'.
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