Italian words and interesting idioms added to our learners' list

 Italian - English

apri - open (verbal instruction to open)

camminare - walking

(un) capello biondo - a blond hair

capelli corti - short hair (adjective after the noun in Italian, Spanish and French. i is plural as in spaghetti)

crema - cream

dopo - after

e - and  (but means is with a downward accent or diacritic on top)

esercizio - exercise

facchia - face

forma - form

guidare - to drive (not to guide)

lavorare - to work (labour in UK, labor day in the USA)

lui vuole - he wants

(mi) lavo (le mani) - I wash (like lavatory, my hands, like manual, and manual labour)

me ne lavo le mani - I wash my hands of it

magari - maybe /perhaps

malattia - sickness / malady

orecchi - ears

ospedale - hospital (drop the h and note that the i changes to e, and a second e goes on the end)

motivo - reason (not motive)

(la) nostra - ours

ospedale - hospital

paura - fear (think of petrified)

(la) partita - the match (part of the contest)

la salute - health

sana - healthy (like sanatorium)

secondo lei - according to her

sickness - malattia

sono tutti orecchi - I am all ears (I am listening, keen to hear)

stai bene - it suits you / you look good

subito - immediately

(molto) stressante - (very) stressful

voti - grades (not votes, grades is US for what the British might call marks, exam results)

English - Italian

according to her - secondo lei

and - e

(a) blond hair - (un) capello biondo

after - dopo

(I'm) all ears - sono tutti orecchi

cream - crema

(to) drive - guidare

ears - orecchi

exercise - esercizio

face - facchia

fear - paura 

form (kind, type) - forma

grades - voti

is -  e (with a down accent on top) - (it) is 

health - la salute

healthy - sana (like sanatorium)

hospital - ospedale 

immediately - subito

(the) match - la partita

maybe / perhaps - magari

open (verb, open, an instruction to the listener to open)

ours - la nostra (add la for it for possessives)

reason - motivo

short hair - capelli corti

(very) stressful - molto stressante

walking - camminare

(he) wants - (lui) vuole

I wash - lavo

I wash my hands

I wash my hands of it - m ne lavo le mani

(to) work - lavorare

you look good / it suits you - stai bene

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