Italian bureaucracy has its own dialect: long nominalized sentences, passive voice, and a vocabulary that barely overlaps with spoken Italian. If you plan to live in Italy — renting, residency, university enrollment — this is unavoidable.
Common patterns
- si prega di + infinitive — 'please [do]', formal instructions
- ai sensi di — 'pursuant to' (a law/article)
- la presente — 'this document/letter' (referring to itself)
- si comunica che — 'it is hereby communicated that'
Si prega di presentarsi con un documento di identità valido.
Vocabulary in this lesson
il modulo
the form
Compili il modulo, per favore.
la scadenza
the deadline
Qual è la scadenza?
l'ufficio anagrafe
the registry office
Devo andare all'anagrafe.
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