| circondata |
| 1. Participle. feminine singular of circondato | |
| circondato |
| 1. v. past participle of circondare (feminine: circondata, masculine plural: circondati, feminine plural: circondate) | |
| 2. v. past participle of circondarsi | |
| da |
| 1. prep. from | |
| Giacomino da Verona - Giacomino from Verona | |
| interviste dal libro - interviews from the book | |
| traduzione dall’“Inferno” di Dante - translation from Dante’s ‘Inferno’ | |
| Dalla Terra alla Luna - From the Earth to the Moon | |
| 2. prep. at | |
| da Giovanni - at Giovanni’s house | |
| 3. prep. since | |
| da quando? - since when? | |
| 4. prep. to (implying necessity) | |
| Non c'è (niente) da fare - There's nothing to do | |
| 5. prep. ngd, Used in some adverbial phrases: | |
| da per tutto/dappertutto/da ogni parte - everywhere | |
| da presso/dappresso - closely | |
| da lontano - from a distance | |
| da solo - by oneself | |
| 6. prep. like, as | |
| fare una vita da cani - to live like dogs | |
| correre da matti - to run like crazies | |
| trattare da amico - to treat as a friend | |
| 7. v. misspelling of dà | |
| un |
| 1. art. an, a | |
| 2. n. one | |
| 3. adj. one | |
| 4. pron. one | |
| mare |
| 1. n. sea | |
| azzurro |
| 1. adj. light blue, azure, sky blue (especially the light blue colour of the sky) | |
| 2. adj. (idiomatic, sport) in or of an Italian national team (athlete, player, etc.) | |
| 3. n. the light blue colour of the sky | |
| 4. n. (heraldry) azure | |
| 5. n-m. (idiomatic, sport) a member of the Italian national team | |
| 6. v. first-person singular present indicative of azzurrare | |
| azzurrare |
| 1. v. to colour blue | |
| quasi |
| 1. adv. nearly, almost | |
| 2. adv. hardly | |
| come |
| 1. adv. how | |
| Come stai? - How are you? (informal) | |
| Come sta? - How are you? (formal) | |
| 2. adv. as, like | |
| blu come il mare - as blue as the sea | |
| 3. adv. such as | |
| 4. conj. as soon as | |
| come arrivò… - as soon as he arrived… | |
| il |
| 1. art. the | |
| nostro |
| 1. adj. (possessive) our | |
| i nostri figli - our children | |
| le nostre macchine - our cars | |
| Cosa Nostra - the Mafia | |
| nostro padre - our father | |
| 2. adj. (possessive) of ours | |
| questo nostro parente - this relative of ours | |
| 3. adj. (emphatic) our own | |
| nostro proprio bambino - our own baby | |
| 4. adj. ours | |
| questa penna è nostra - this pen is ours | |
| 5. pron. il nostro (la nostra, i nostri, le nostre) | |
| 6. pron. See under il nostro etc. | |
| 7. n. ours, our own | |
| 8. n. (in the plural) our possessions, friends, relatives etc. | |
| il nostro |
| 1. pron. ours | |
| Sono i nostri - They are ours. | |
