A Lovely Day in the Italian Language.
By Xxlauraxx
@all4italy
It is a lovely day, a song says.
Actually any time of day can be pleasant. A day in Italian language? “Drin” that’s
the alarm clock= sveglia
, it's time to get up. Ok let's say that this may be the most complex moment in the day. We go to the kitchen for our cup of coffee: I can not start
without my cup of coffee! The morning = la mattina begins. go to work. Usually the hours in
the morning go fast and when we feel our
stomach rumblings =
brontolii , the noon = mezzogiorno is arrived. It is time for the lunch break = pausa pranzo
. After eating I would like to take a nap = fare un pisolino but I think it could be not
even thinkable. At 16:00 is tea or coffee time: if you are still
children is the fateful time for the tea/ snack = merenda! What envy! When I was 10 years old I
ate, I went to school and I played- no
mortgage, no stress, no my boss, no meetings ... how nice! Ok stop the nostalgia. At 17:00 there
is a moment that I found through the poetry of Leopardi precisely the poetry “
the Saturday in the village”. I'm talking about the hour of vespers = vespri.
From the Catholic point of view is one hour linked to the evening prayer, in my
imagination it is the time that marks the beginning of the sunset = tramonto and then the arrival of the evening. Some
people think this moment is sad.
Other people – I’m one of them - love when the sky changes the color and it amazes
all with an incredible show. The sky darkens and the first stars appear, the
path is slow but the night
= notte is coming. In a few hours we will start again with a new day
and it will always be a lovely day.