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La mia vacanza finisce tra agosto e settembre.

La mia vacanza finisce tra agosto e settembre.
My vacation ends between August and September.
From Lesson 51:Months of the year·Italian

Questions & Answers about La mia vacanza finisce tra agosto e settembre.

Why are agosto and settembre written in lowercase?
In Italian, the names of the months and seasons are never capitalized unless they happen to be the very first word of a sentence.
Does the word tra always mean "between"?
In this sentence it means "between" two months, but tra can also mean "among" (like among friends) or "in" when talking about the future (like "in two weeks"). You might also see the word fra used here; tra and fra mean the exact same thing and can be used interchangeably.
Why is there a La before mia vacanza? Doesn't that literally mean "the my vacation"?
Yes, it does! In Italian, possessive words like mia almost always require a definite article (like la or il) in front of them. The main exception to this rule is when you are talking about singular family members, where you drop the article (like mia madre for "my mother").
Why is the verb finisce spelled with an "isc" in the middle?
The dictionary form of the verb is finire (to end or finish). It belongs to a common group of verbs that add -isc- into the middle of the word for most of their present tense forms. So instead of just adding the -e ending for "it" directly to the stem fin-, you add it to finisc- to get finisce (it ends).

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