

In Italian, most countries are singular feminine ( l’Italia, la Francia, la Tunisia, l’Irlanda, la Cina, etc. Countries & Continents 1- Gender and Agreement The most represented citizenships of origin are Albanian (26,000 acquisitions, 20.5% of the total), Moroccan (12.5%), Brazilian (8.4%), and Romanian (8%).

Over a million people have acquired Italian citizenship in the last decade, of which nearly 800,000 in the last five years.
#DISEGNO COCCINELLA CHE VOLA FULL#
In other words, you have full civil and political rights

So, if you have Italian citizenship, you can legally obtain an Italian passport, vote in the Italian elections, apply to public service, etc. On the other hand, citizenship represents your socio-political belonging to the country that issues your passport. Nationality mainly indicates the cultural, religious, and traditions that link us to a country or to a state. (“I speak French but I don’t like french cooking.”) Table of ContentsĮven if we often use it to mean the same thing, nationality and citizenship are not necessarily the same. Parlo francese ma non amo la cucina francese. And while it is certainly easy to learn and remember the vocabulary related to your nationality, you should be prepared to sustain a conversation about other countries and nationalities, of which there are quite a lot! But don’t worry, once you learn the names of the countries and the name of the nationalities in Italian, you will automatically also know the name of the language and the general adjective for anything related to that country. That is why it is important to be able to answer with the appropriate vocabulary. Possibly one of the first things you will be asked as a foreigner traveling or living in Italy, it will be: “ Sei straniero? Da dove vieni?” (“Are you a foreigner? Where do you come from?”).
