Italian Discussion--10/16/2012

Today, we went over how to conjugate the verbs "to have" and "to be". Both of these, just like in French, are irregular. Given this pattern, I would assume that "to go" and "to do/make" are also irregular. Also like in French, certain expressions that in English use the verb "to be" use the verb "to have". Translating the sentence literally gives people nonsense since the expressions are idiomatic. For example, rather than say "I am ___ years old", in Italian, they say "I have ___ years". Some other expressions are "I have hunger", "I have thirst" and "I have sick", when translated literally. These expressions have the same sentence structure and use the same verb as in French.