German words ending in -iv. A German word like "aktiv", it is "active" in English, "defensiv" is "defensive" in English. For common words, do they likely work like this? A German word ends in iv has a similar English word (a cognate???) that ends in ive.

Hello, I want to say in German "I am getting ready to go out." The answer in the book is: Ich bin bereit rauszugehen. My answer is: Ich bereite mich zu ausgehen vor. Does my sentence make sense? The dictionary I use does not have the word rauszugehen. What does it mean? Thank you.

Is my German sentence correct? I want to say, Is everything you said accurate? Ist alles akkurat, das hast du gesagt?

I read that the dative object always comes before the accusative object in a sentence. Why is this sentence correct? The dative object einem Tuch is at the end. Ich wishe den Spiegel mit einem Tuch. Thank you

Question about Airport Strike in Italy. I read that there will be an airport strike this Sunday 04 June. Do you know if the strike will last many days? Thank you very much for the answer.

Hello, anybody knows a good source to do exercises on Italian's prepositions and definite articles? For example, al, dello, della, etc. Fill-in-the-blank exercises are good.

My question is for those who learn both Italian and Spanish. There is a large number of words that are the same in both languages. During a conversation in either language, how do you remember if a word is common and can be used? Is there any trick? The issue is I often times use a Spanish word in an Italian conversation because I thought it's the same.

Buongiorno, In questa frase, "Devo comprare del latte". Perché usiamo "del latte" e non "il latte"? Grazie mille.

Negredo: "Me duele, están destrozando el Valencia" Si fuera yo, habría escrito "están destrozando al Valencia". Por qué "el Valencia"? Gracias.