Check the Key WordsHow to ask how to get somewhere - a few basics
Per Bassano?
È lontano?
A circa cinquecento metri
- The easiest way to ask how to get to a place is to start with per, 'for', followed by the name of the place.
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- To ask if a place is far away, all you say is È lontano? 'Is it far?'
- You may be told the distance in kilometres or hundreds of metres. Figures in the hundreds are easy to understand and say. One hundred is cento.
- Then, for 200-900, the words for 2-9 are followed by -cento: duecento, trecento, quattrocento, cinquecento, seicento, settecento, ottocento, novecento.
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Can you understand the distances? Click on 'start the activity' then drag the numbers on the right after each sentence.
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