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(o in-ten-tzee-oh-nay dee ri-torn-are-ay een eet-al-yer a madge-oh)

      To recap, in Italian, if you want to say “I’m planning to…” you can simply use “I have intention of…”.

      It’s an extremely useful expression and actually is just one of a number of such expressions that work in more or less the same way.

      For example, if you want to say “I feel like…” or “I fancy…” in Italian, you will literally say “I have want of…” which in Italian is:

       Ho voglia di

       (o vol-ya dee)

      Knowing this, how would you say “I feel like going back to Italy in May / I fancy going back to Italy in May” (literally “I have want of to return to Italy in May”)?

       Ho voglia di ritornare in Italia a maggio.

       (o vol-ya dee ri-torn-are-ay een eet-al-yer a madge-oh)

      What is “September” in Italian?

       settembre

       (se-tem-bray)

      So, how would you say “in September”?

       a settembre

       (a se-tem-bray)

      And how would you say “I feel like going back to Italy in September / I fancy going back to Italy in September” (literally “I have want of to return to Italy in September”)?

       Ho voglia di ritornare in Italia a settembre.

       (o vol-ya dee ri-torn-are-ay een eet-al-yer a se-tem-bray)

      Do you remember how to say “in Rome”?

       a Roma

       (a roam-er)

      “To Rome” in Italian is said in exactly the same way – how would you say “to Rome”?

       a Roma

       (a roam-er)

      And how would you say “I feel like going back to Rome / I fancy going back to Rome”?

       Ho voglia di ritornare a Roma.

       (o vol-ya dee ri-torn-are-ay a roam-er)

      You have now practised using two phrases that are constructed in a similar way. The first uses the words “I have intention of…” to express “I’m planning to…” and the other uses the words “I have want of…” to mean “I feel like…” or “I fancy…”.