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Learn how to express the impersonal ‘you’ in Italian

The impersonal ‘you’ is used in English when not directly referring to the person or people in front of you, but people in general - eg ‘How do you get to the centre?’ or ‘You buy bread at the baker’s’.

In Italian ‘you’ express this idea using the pronoun ’si’ and the third person singular form of the verb, for example:

si fa cosi’ (you do it like this)
non si puo’ fumare qui (you can’t smoke here)
di solito si dorme la notte (you usually sleep at night)

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