Master Italian: 'After' & 'Before' + Masculine Nouns Ending in '-ma'! 🚀 (Easy Grammar Guide)

Hello everyone, this is our thirteenth Italian lesson. Today we will talk about a structure that you already know, more or less. Before, before, you already know, I hope, and after. So, before plus verb in the infinitive, is the rule, and after plus verb in the present indicative. Before eating, you say, before sleeping, before working, I don't know, before sending an e-mail, etc. But, after I eat, here you have to conjugate the verb, after I eat, after I sleep, after I work, after I send the e-mail, and so on. Before going to the gym, you already know the gym, I drink a glass of milk. Before working, I eat something. Before having breakfast, I smoke a cigarette. So, before smoking, I repeat, before sleeping, before drinking something, before meeting my friends, etc., etc. Excuse me. But, after, after I go to the gym, I drink a glass of milk. After I go to the gym, so the verb to go must be conjugated, remember? I go, you go, he, she goes, etc., etc. After I go to the gym, I drink a glass of milk. After I work, I eat something. So, the verb is to work, before working, but after I work. And, after I have breakfast, I smoke a cigarette. So, we have to have breakfast, before having breakfast, but after having breakfast. Because the verb to do, remember, is irregular, I do, you do, he, she does, we do, you do, they do. The new words are to smoke, it's a verb, to smoke. To smoke a cigarette, a cigarette, or the pack of cigarettes. Something, it's used like this. Do you want something to drink? Do you want something to drink? Or do you take something to drink? Do you take something to eat? Do you take something to eat? Yes, I take a sandwich. Do you come like today? I can't, I have something to do. I have something to do. Try now to answer these questions. What is the first thing you do after you get home from work? Then, later, you will also see my answers. What is the last thing you do before going to bed? What is the first thing you do after you arrive in a hotel room? Then, what is the first thing you do after you arrive in a hotel room? What is the last thing you do before leaving the house? What is the first thing you do after you eat? What is the last thing you do before starting work? My answers. The first thing I do after I get home from work is eat something. The last thing I do before going to bed is turn off the light. The first thing I do after I arrive in a hotel room is look at the panorama. The panorama. Attention! Later we will talk about nouns that end in "-ma", but are of masculine gender. The panorama. It's an exception, let's say. And the last thing I do before leaving the house is put on my shoes. The first thing I do after I eat is wash the dishes. The last thing I do before starting work is check the mail. And now, as I said before, there are nouns in Italian that end in "-ma". I know, I said that if a word ends in "-a", it is very likely that it is of feminine gender. But there are also exceptions. Now we will talk a little about these exceptions. The panorama. The panoramas, in the plural. A panorama. The panorama. The problem. The problems. A problem. I have a problem. Here. I have a problem. I don't know where to go on vacation this summer. This summer. Then I will also explain to you what summer means, when it is used. Enough. The diploma. The diplomas. A diploma. The dilemma. The dilemmas. A dilemma. I have a dilemma. I don't know where to go this summer. Here. I have a dilemma. It is better to go to the sea or to the mountains this summer. The scheme. Attention. We put the because we have S plus consonant. If you remember the rule. The scheme. The schemes. A scheme. This is a scheme. The scheme I always do. A is feminine singular. Feminine plural. Masculine singular. Masculine plural. More feminine. Is masculine singular. Is feminine masculine plural. This is a scheme. Then we have the program. The programs. A program. I watch. You can also say television program. I watch a very interesting television program. But a program. It is not feminine gender. The ghost. The ghosts. A ghost. The opera ghost is a very popular novel. The theme. The themes. A theme. What is the theme of this lesson? This is the theme. So, new words. Better. Pay attention. It is better to go to the gym twice a week. It is better to sleep eight hours. It is better to eat a lot of fruit. It is better not to go to the gym every day. It is better not to go. You can also use it like this. The television program is the novel. Then popular or famous. You can also say famous. I said popular novel, but you can also say famous novel. Famous character. And summer. Summer. So, we have the four seasons. Since we talked about summer, I will tell you all the seasons. The spring. Winter. Summer. Feminine gender. Autumn. I repeat. The spring. Winter. Summer. Autumn. And we also finished this Italian lesson. See you later.