DNA
by Gabry Ponte, Jovanotti
How to study this song
Learning “DNA” means 50 entries at A2+ — 24 Italian words, 5 adjectives and 21 verb forms, every one taken from what the song actually says. Start with the glossary: vento, davanzale and vita come up again and again, so they are the ones to know first. This one leans on its verbs: 21 distinct forms against 5 adjectives, so conjugation is where the effort goes. At this level the goal is recognition: hear a word, place it, keep going.
The words of this song, in several languages
Every word below is taken from this song and translated by us. Nothing here is the lyric itself — these are the individual words you need in order to follow it.
Vocabulary
| IT | EN | ES | FR | PT | NL | DE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vento | wind | viento | vent | vento | wind | Wind |
| davanzale |
Adjectives
| IT | EN | ES | FR | PT | NL | DE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vagabondo | wandering, roaming | vagabundo, errante | vagabond | vagabundo, errante | zwervend | umherziehend, vagabundierend |
This card holds 4 more adjectives. You meet them when you play the song.
Verb forms
| IT | EN | ES | FR | PT | NL | DE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| mi ha portato | has brought me | me ha traído | m’a amené | trouxe-me | heeft me gebracht | hat mich gebracht |
What this song teaches you
Level · A2+
- Vocabulary words
- 24
- Adjectives
- 5
- Word combos
- 19
- Expressions
- 11
- Verb forms
- 21
- Quiz questions
- 35
Background
About the song
«DNA» is a single by the Italian DJ and producer Gabry Ponte with the singer-songwriter Jovanotti, released to digital platforms and Italian radio on 26 June 2026 on the Gekai label. The radio-date service EarOne and the Italian Wikipedia entry for the song credit four writers: Gabriele Ponte, Lorenzo Cherubini (Jovanotti’s real name), Luca Moretti and Luca Magra. The same Wikipedia entry names Ponte as producer, gives a running time of three minutes and four seconds and files the track under dance pop. Italian music sites presented it as the first record the two have made together.
The single was announced only a few days before it came out, in the week of Ponte’s second stadium show in Milan. The press release, repeated almost word for word by Italian news agencies, described it as the meeting of two worlds that have marked Italian music for thirty years: the beats and energy of a dance producer on one side, the writing of one of the country’s best-known pop authors on the other. It also promised the feeling of car windows rolled down and a sudden wish to set off on a trip.
The words follow a simple arc. A wandering wind carries the singer to the windowsill of a new stage of his life, drawn there by the colour of someone’s flowers, some of which turn out to be plants that would happily eat his heart. He is hungry for life and wants to wind himself around the other person until their two genetic codes are twisted together; the chorus is little more than that image, repeated. The second verse looks outward: legends settle over the stories of young heroes, nobody should listen to people who drag them down, and people of their kind push harder when they are tired. The last section turns to the future tense and to nature (rivers, grass, fish) and ends with a whole crowd dancing and weaving its own code into the singer’s. Sky TG24 read it as a bond that goes beyond attraction and then widens from the couple to the community.
For a learner of Italian the song is short, slow to change and very repetitive, which helps. It is a tidy lesson in the simple future, in prepositions fused with the article, and in infinitives that carry a pronoun on the end.