Stasera

Italian word of the day

Origin	It’s the shortened form of questa sera
Translation	This evening
IPA pronunciation	/staˈseːra/

Examples

Dall’aspetto del cielo, potrebbe iniziare a nevicare stasera.
From the look of the sky, it may begin to snow tonight.

Sono così stanca che stasera non ho voglia di studiare.
I’m so tired that I don’t feel like studying tonight.

Ci vediamo stasera, allora. Ciao!
See you tonight, then. Cheers!

Cosa farai stasera? – Guarderò un po’ di TV.
What are you going to do tonight? – I’ll watch a little TV.

Using stasera in Italian

You use stasera in Italian to talk about events that happen between 6pm and midnight.

You can’t use stasera to talk about events that happen after midnight, that is what stanotte is for. Stanotte literally means “this night” or “tonight”.

Rapineremo la banca stanotte alle 3.
We are going to rob the bank tonight at 3 am.

Faremo una passeggiata stasera dopo cena.
We’re going for a walk tonight after dinner.

Of course, you can also use questa sera instead of stasera. The words are completely interchangeable.

Questa sera verrà lanciato un razzo lunare.
A moon rocket will be launched tonight.

Siete tutti nostri ospiti questa sera.
You are all our guests tonight.

Questa sera ti va di giocare a scacchi?
How about playing chess tonight?

Collocations with sera

There’s a number of common expressions and collocations using sera in Italian. Some of these are…

• sul far della sera (at sunset, literally “on the evening’s doing)
• verso sera (toward the evening)
• a tarda sera (late in the evening)
• una di queste sere (one of these nights)

For example, you can say…

Mi piacerebbe andare a mangiare fuori, una di queste sere.
I’d like to go out for dinner one of these nights.

Mio papà torna sempre a casa a tarda sera.
My dad always comes home late at night.

Smise di piovere verso sera.
It stopped raining towards evening.

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