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When travelling to New Zealand, I watched a film in English, then In Italian with English subtitles.
PAST
When you hear the letter v in a verb it is like the word have in English and means the past tense. For example,
Italian - English
amici - friends
ancora - still
broccoli - broccoli
cerco - I'm looking for
e - and
Frutti - fruit
frutti di mare - seafood (literally fruit of the sea)
(al) funghi - (with, literally at) mushrooms
ho bisogno - I need
il poliziotto - the police (officer)
lei - she
letto - bed
non posso - I can't (In Italian the negative comes first, before the verb, as in the Enlish phrase, not possible.
non sono felice - I am not happy
ospiti - guests
insalata - salad
pesce - fish
pollo - chicken
posso - I can (like the English word possible)
regali - gifts
ritardo / in retardo - late
rosa - pink
salmone - salmon
sono felice - I am happy
sono stanco - I am tired
sono malato - I am ill
souvenir - souvenirs
sto aspettando (per) - I am waiting for
sto vomitando - I am vomiting
tavola - table
torta - cake
troppo - too
urgente - urgent
vino bianco - white wine (the adjective is after the noun)
vitello - veal
CONFUSING WORDS
compormento - behavious
For a useful set or grouped phrases see the Phrasebook in Wikivoyage.
English - Italian
and - e
bed - letto
(the) breakfast - (la) colazione
cake - torta
chicken - pollo
(the) dining room - la sala da pranzo
fish - pesce
(the) flu - l'influenza
friends - amici
gifts - regali
guests - ospiti
I can - posso
I can't - non posso
I'm looking for - cerco
I need - ho bisogno
late - ritardo / in ritardo
Long - lunga
(the) manager - il direttore
my husband - mio marito
My wife - mia moglie (my is mia, not mia, because the word my agrees with or or a to match the thing or person being described - which sounds nicer, don't you think?)
our group - il nostro gruppo
pink - rosa
(the) police officer - il poliziotto
salad - insalata
salmon - salmone
she - lei
souvenirs - souvenir
table - tavola
troppo - too
urgent - urgente
veal - vitello
where is - dov'è (accent on the e for the verb to be. no accent on e meaning and)
White wine - vino bianco
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