Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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The intensive pronoun, ipse-ipsa-ipsum, stresses the word it modifies. This is used if you were going to say something like "I saw Professor Dave himself at the grocery store". Let's learn precisely how it declines and how to use it!

Script by Patrizia Farina, Professor of Italian at Western Connecticut State University and Purchase College.

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