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Both of the Italian verbs 'stare' and 'essere' can be translated into English as 'to be' in certain contexts.

'Essere' means 'to be' or 'to exist' whilst 'stare' usually means 'to stay.' ...

When building a compound tense it is necessary to use the auxiliar "essere" when the verb is a reflexive verb, and/or when the verb is intransitive ( it cannot take a direct object). It is in...

In Italian when you have to show respect to a person (somebody you don't know, an older person, a colleague, a teacher... basically everybody who's not a friend) you don't address him a "tu" ...