Breakdown of Faccio collezione di figurine.
la figurina
the trading card
fare collezione di
to have a collection of, to collect (= collezionare)
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Questions & Answers about Faccio collezione di figurine.
Why does this sentence use faccio (I make/do) instead of a verb for "to collect"?
How would I say "I used to collect trading cards" using the imperfetto tense from this lesson?
You would change faccio to its past continuous form. Because fare is an irregular verb, it becomes facevo. The sentence would be Facevo collezione di figurine. If you used the regular verb instead, it would be Collezionavo figurine.
Why isn't there an article, like una, before collezione?
What exactly is a figurina?
A figurina (plural: figurine) is a trading card or a collectible sticker. The word is made by taking figura (figure or picture) and adding the ending -ina (small). Collecting football stickers to paste into albums is a massive childhood tradition in Italy!