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Personalità
Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but friendliness is in the heart and kindness is in the soul. Check out this Italian vocabulary to learn how to describe someone’s personality.
Asking about someone’s personality
To ask what a person is like, you need the verb essere (to be):
| What is he / she like? | Come è? | |
| What is he like? | Come è lui? | |
| What is she like? | Come è lei? |
Describing someone’s personality
When describing someone, use être and remember to make the adjective agree with the person’s gender.
| He / She is… | (Lui) e… | (Lei) e… | |
| boring | noioso | noiosa | |
| brave | coraggioso | coraggiosa | |
| chatty | chiacchierone | chiacchierone | |
| cowardly | codardo | codarda | |
| cunning | astuto | astuta | |
| friendly | amichevole | amichevole | |
| funny | divertente | divertente | |
| hard-working | laborioso | laboriosa | |
| impatient | impaziente | impaziente | |
| interesting | interessante | interessante | |
| kind | gentile | gentile | |
| lazy | pigro | pigra | |
| mean | meschino | meschina | |
| naive | ingenuo | ingenua | |
| nice | simpatico | simpatica | |
| open-minded | aperto di mente | aperta di mente | |
| outgoing | estroverso | estroversa | |
| patient | paziente | paziente | |
| patriotic | patriottico | patriottica | |
| playful | giocoso | giocosa | |
| quirky | eccentrico | eccentrica | |
| serious | serio | seria | |
| shy | timido | timida | |
| smart | intelligente | intelligente | |
| sociable | socievole | socievole | |
| snobbish | snob | snob | |
| sophisticated | sofisticato | sofisticata | |
| studious | studioso | studiosa | |
| stupid | stupido | stupida | |
| unfriendly | scortese | scortese | |
| well-behaved | ben educato | ben educata |
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