Today’s lesson is a behavior that you might be familiar with, especially if you’ve recently been to Italy and enjoyed the diversity of food that the country has to offer.
If you’re not careful, it’s easy to stuff yourself with paste, dolci, pane, e carne.
And if you want to talk about how that happened in Italian, you would use the verb “abbuffarsi.”
Ecco gli esempi:
Mi sono abbuffato di torta e adesso mi sento male. - I stuffed myself with cake and now I don’t feel good.
Ieri sera mi sono fatto un’abbuffata di lasagne al tartufo. - Last night I gorged on truffle lasagna. / Last night I had a feast of truffle lasagna.
Non abbuffarti con quel pane! Abbiamo ordinato cinque portate! - Don’t stuff yourself with that bread! We ordered five courses!
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[Italian Lesson] I stuffed myself.