Breakdown of Dopo il liceo, scelgo la facoltà di medicina.
di
of, from
la medicina
the medicine
scegliere
to choose
dopo
after
il liceo
the high school
la facoltà
the (university) faculty, the department
Questions & Answers about Dopo il liceo, scelgo la facoltà di medicina.
How would I change this sentence into indirect speech to say 'He said that...'?
If the reporting verb is in the past, the present tense scelgo shifts back one tense to the imperfetto. You would say: Lui ha detto che dopo il liceo sceglieva la facoltà di medicina (He said that after high school he chose the faculty of medicine).
The infinitive is scegliere. Why does scelgo have a hard 'g' sound?
Is liceo a false friend for the English word 'college'?
Yes, liceo refers to an academic high school in Italy, not a university. To talk about college or higher education, you would use l'università.
Why is it di medicina instead of della medicina?
When naming a specific university faculty, degree, or subject of study, Italian uses the simple preposition di without the definite article.
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