Ho bisogno di sonno! Sono stanca...

(I need sleep! I'm tired...)

Great question! The phrase "ho bisogno di" can be followed by both infinitive verbs and nouns. For example:

With nouns you can say:

Ho bisogno di un lavoro. (I need a job)

Ho bisogno di sonno. (I need sleep)

With infinitive verbs you can say:

Ho bisogno di lavorare. (I need to work)

Ho bisogno di dormire. (I need to sleep)

Hope this helps!

Complimenti!

ps

Ho bisogno di una vacanza!

This is going to be difficult for me... I have absolutely no time to add Italian to my list right now... but the pull now is quite strong... eek!

Ho bisogno di più tempo!

Abbiamo bisogno di Adriana Lima!!!

Grazie mille marco e catherine!

Awesome lesson, great great dialogue!!

No ho bisogno di una ragazza, ho bisogno di te! I love how cheesy it is, I couldn't stop laughing!

Well done ; )

di + la always become della

and

di + il is del

di + lo is dello

By the way, this dialogue would have been much cooler (though perhaps a little kinkily cheesy) if both speakers had been male!

And my Spanish professor either must have been lying or is simply a language genius - she claims to be able to converse with native speakers of Portuguese, Italian and French relatively effortlessly without ever having studied one of these languages...of course, they all belong to the same linguistic family, but I cannot imagine that it would be easy to understand each other if your interlocutor spoke his/her native tongue and you insited on using yours as well! As a native speaker of Spanish, I notice countless similarities, of course, but still, there are so many different grammatical constructions, distinct idiomatic concepts and vocabulary items. Hmm... After all, a person from the Nederlands would probably not understand a German and vice versa without a LOT of adjustment going on.

in my personal opinion, and as an Italian, I'd say that Italian and Spanish are really the two closest ones among the Neo-Romance languages.

I don't know about the exact distance between French and Spanish, but I'm not surprised, because I have the same feeling of some more difficulties in understanding French.

I did'nt studied at all Spanish nor French, but I have experienced that, if I'm speaking Italian with  a Spanish, and he's addressing to me in  Spanish, if he speaks slowly and he's willing to be understandable too, and so do I, well, there are good chances of a reciprocal understanding.

Furthermore, I've tried the listening test on Spanish Pod, and I was able to get an elementary level without any particular difficulty. Well, Up to now it seems to me there's no listening test here on ItalianPod, but when there will be, some Spanish native speaker could try the same test and let us now his results, it would be intersting.

ciao Michele.

I'm a polish native - can understand some russian. Speak a good german & can understand some dutch, if necessary. lived two years in Spain, so my spanish is not too bad & seems like I'm able to understand italian & portuguese well.

After you've learned any two languages, it's more of a common sense to expand your knowledge/skills & get a grip on a few more. numerous words are not dissimilar in different languages, so the clue is to understand the very basic rules & then try to apply them everywhere u can!

Ho bisogno piu tempo per imparare il mio italiano!!!

Ciao!

you only have to add a di and an accento above the "U"..

Ho bisogno di più tempo

I love Italian!

so happy to learn it!

We're so happy to teach it! I hope you continue to listen and let us know if you have any questions. We're curious to know if there's anything we've left unclear in the lesson, or if there's anything you want us to talk about here on the discussion part of the site.

Thanks again!

grazie, grazie and grazie for the lessons:)

We tried to simplify the dialogue in the clip at 4'54"
to make it more linguistically relevant.

ho bisogno di la mare.  E Giusto? (ho bisogno di il mare(?)/ ho bisogno d'il mare?) 

ho bisogno del mare or ho bisogno di mare. both right.

Grazie Marcod.

ps - the audio reviews for 'need a girlfriend' and 'where is she?' both have mistakes in them.

Hai bisogno controllare....

oops ... della???

or should it be ... bisogno di una vacanza

just started these lessons yesterday ... pls excuse the beginners mistakes ;o)

Ho bisogno di riposare!

Cute,short,lively DIA.

and Marcod(?),u speak Very..very lovely~

C:

Avere bisogno di qlco./qlcu./fare qlco.

:)

Sono Cenk di İstanbul;

Sono studente in İtalian Culture

Ciao!

Thanks for your comment! I'm glad you're finding the site helpful... please post if you have any questions, or if there's anything in particular you're interested in hearing in our lessons!

@sensojnk,

Nice to know we have friends in Istanbul! I'd like to mention that if you're interested in Italian culture we also have a culture show called Ci scusiamo per il ritardo! Sorry for the Delay! That is all about culture, travel, and different parts of Italy. You should check it out!

Catherine

ho bisogno di sposarmi.

sposarsi [to get married] is a reflexive verb.

e buona notte!

I am Russian, know English very well,

I really love this site,

cause it is very helpful to get first knowledge of this beautiful Italian!

thanks a lot Catherinem and Marcod.

ciao)

Non c'è differenza vanno bene entrambi.

La regola è che di+vocale diventa d`. Questo perchè nella ligua parlata risulterebbe faticoso da pronunciare. Però puoi benissimo fare una piccola pausa e pronunciare di+pausa+imparare.

Hope that I cleared it up.

Grazie mile! 

andyxu110@hotmail.com

or can i say where r u raely from china or italy?

i just wanted to ask u , how can i say i love u in italian ?

I love u is "ti amo" if u wanna say it in a romantic way.

If u wanna say it to one of your friends or to your parents u should use "ti voglio bene" that is translated as "I love u" or "I really care about u".

I always remember "ti amo" from the 1984 Laura Branigan cover [mostly in English except for "ti amo"] of Umberto Tozzi's 1977 song titled "Ti Amo" [in Italian].Both good songs in my book.Here is Laura Branigan's cover:

Ho bisogno di Ozan?  & Ho bisogno ti?

Ho bisogno di Ozan - that´s right

Ho bisogno di te (look at pdf version)

hasanova!
- Hai bisogno di Ozan? You need Ozan?
- Chi è Ozan? Who is Ozan?
we want gossip!!

:)

No worries mate.I'm definitely looking forward to hearing Irene sing the Karaoke version with you.Good on you.

"Chi è Ozan?"  Ozan is my love :))

but it is not gossip, if you talked it with others it would be..:))

the right sentence is Ho bisogno di baciare il mio ragazzo. And I agree with you two. Anche io ho bisogno di baciare il mio ragazzo ;-)

Charles says:  Ho bisogno di più neve per sci xc.

Kirsten says:  Ho bisogno di una spazzola da neve per macchina!

Buon inverno!

grazie Charles and Kiristen.

In your sentences there are no mistakes but I would add a verb in both of them so:

Ho bisogno di più neve per poter andare sugli sci.

Ho bisogno di una spazzola da neve per pulire la macchina.

Buon inverno anche a voi!

We figured out pulire, to clean.

I can't figure out poter andare sugli; could you break it down for me?  (able to go (ski) on?)

Grazie!

Charles

In italian, if u wanna use the verb "sciare" it's the same as english so :

per poter sciare, per riuscire a sciare = be able to sky

but, if u wanna use the name, (singular masculine = lo sci, plural masculine = gli sci) u need to say

andare sugli sci = go on ski (literally)

coz u need to step on the ski, so we use "su=sopra".

Hope that I cleared it up.

per poter andere sugli sci = so I can go on skis;

per poter sciare = so I can go skiing.

Is that correct?

Mille grazie Irene per tutto l'aiuto!

Charles

Sono qui per aiutare ;-)

Ben fatto Charles

Charles

Anyway, the snow seems to be a big problem!!! ;-)

Sì, un "snow scoop."  Con 500 - 800cm ogni anno, una pala da neve sono troppo a lavoro.   

Charles

That's a good question. In Italian, there's no rule about double negatives becoming positive, as there is in English.

Saying non ho bisogno di niente literally means I don't need nothing (which in English is grammatically incorrect) and thus the translation on the site is: I don't need anything.

Just note that in Italian double (or even triple) negatives act to reinforce the statement. For example:

Non lo faccio mai.

literally: I don`t never do it.

Normally, I'd instead say I never do it.

Hope this helps!

^_^

Ho bisogno di giocare . :)

Learn Italian words and the concept of the words as well (- and - does not mean + as in English).

Man those cultural things make your brain work out very hard I need to drink some cold water and relax.