Where are you from?
Use sei with a person you address informally.
FREE BEGINNER LESSON 5 · ITALIAN
Italian: Where are you from?
Say where you are from and where you live.
Informal · getting acquainted. Learn the meaning, listen to the pronunciation, then practise in the interactive lesson.
Practise this lessonOpening vocabulary referenceUseful Italian phrases and their meanings
I am from London.
Di introduces your home town in this pattern.
Where do you live?
Abiti is the informal you form of abitare.
I live in Rome.
Use a before a town or city in this simple pattern.
How the sentence works
Di dove sei? asks where a friend is from. Sono di Londra uses di with a town. Abito a Roma uses a for a town where you live; countries normally take in, as in abito in Italia. Dove means where.
A short conversation in Italian
Where are you from?
I am from London. And you?
I am from Rome.
Words to recognise
where
London
Rome
Italy
Listen to the whole phrase before focusing on each word. You can replay as often as you like, and the interactive lesson uses pictures and a short exchange to put the meaning in context.
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