{"id":24,"date":"2006-04-04T17:09:26","date_gmt":"2006-04-04T16:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/04\/word-of-the-day-giovanissimi-italian\/"},"modified":"2006-04-04T17:09:26","modified_gmt":"2006-04-04T16:09:26","slug":"giovanissimi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day &#8211; giovanissimi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/blog\/giovanissimi.mp3\">giovanissimi<\/a>, noun = young teenagers<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related words:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/blog\/giovetu.mp3\">giovent\u00f9<\/a>, noun = youth<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/blog\/giovane.mp3\">giovane<\/a>, adjective = young, noun = youth, young man, girl, young woman<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/blog\/giovotto.mp3\">giovanotto<\/a>, noun = young man<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/blog\/giovanile.mp3\">giovanile<\/a>, adjective = youthful<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/blog\/i-giovani.mp3\">i giovani<\/a>, noun = the young<\/p>\n<p><strong>Antonyms<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/blog\/vecchio.mp3\">vecchio<\/a>, adjective = old, noun = old man<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/blog\/vecchia.mp3\">vecchia<\/a>, noun = old woman<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/blog\/i-vecchi.mp3\">i vecchi<\/a>, noun = old people<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/blog\/vecchiaia.mp3\">vecchiaia<\/a>, noun = old age<\/p>\n<p>This word caught my eye today while working on a website in Italian. It demonstrates one aspect of Italian word formation: the intensifying ending -issim-, which you can add to most adjectives. For example, buono = good, buonissimo = very good.<\/p>\n<p>When you learn a new word in a foreign language, it&#8217;s a good idea to learn related words and antonyms (words with the opposite meaning). This helps to build up your vocabulary.<\/p>\n<p>I made the soundfiles with the text-to-speech program at:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pd.istc.cnr.it\/FESTIVAL\/home\/demo-interactive.htm\">http:\/\/www.pd.istc.cnr.it\/FESTIVAL\/home\/demo-interactive.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>giovanissimi, noun = young teenagers Related words: giovent\u00f9, noun = youth giovane, adjective = young, noun = youth, young man, girl, young woman giovanotto, noun = young man giovanile, adjective = youthful i giovani, noun = the young Antonyms vecchio, adjective = old, noun = old man vecchia, noun = old woman i vecchi, noun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-italian","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}