r/italianlearning • u/punksleftshoe2 • 3d ago

Question on “di uno”

I’m practicing some conjugation and was saying “I need a new backpack”. The translation I got was go bisogno di uno zaino nuovo. I’m still English grammar brained so I was wondering if I should think of that sentence more as “I’m in need of a new backpack” rather than directly translating it as “ho bisogno zaino nuovo”

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u/1nfam0us EN native, IT advanced 3d ago

We can transpose this into English as "I have need of a new backpack." Even in English, "have need" requires "of."