Breakdown of Voglio tagliarmi i capelli, devo andare dal parrucchiere.
da
from, at (someone's place) / by (oneself), on one's own
andare
to go / to be fine / to work out
volere
to want
dovere
must
Questions & Answers about Voglio tagliarmi i capelli, devo andare dal parrucchiere.
Why is it tagliarmi i capelli instead of tagliare i miei capelli?
In Italian, when an action involves your own body or clothes, you don't usually use possessives like miei. Instead, you use a reflexive pronoun like mi (to myself) and the definite article i. Literally, the phrase translates to 'to cut to myself the hair'.
Since tagliarmi uses a reflexive pronoun, does this mean I am cutting my own hair?
Why is it dal parrucchiere and not al parrucchiere?
When you go to a person's house or workplace (like a doctor, a friend, or a hairdresser), Italian requires the preposition da rather than a. Here, da combines with the definite article il to form dal.
How could I use the pronoun ci from this lesson to say 'I must go there'?