One room that most of us couldn’t imagine living without these days is the bathroom or bagno in Italian (plural: bagni). Bagno is a masculine noun that takes the following definite and indefinite articles: il bagnoun bagno i bagnidei bagni Related to the verb bagnare (to wet), it can refer to both the room with …
In Italian and English, it isn’t uncommon to come across “false friends“, or in other words, vocabulary items in different languages that look or sound similar but have a completely different meaning. One of the best examples of this is the word camera (feminine, plural camere). At first glance, any English speaker would immediately assume …
They say that home is where the heart is, and this couldn’t be truer in Italy where family always comes first. There is one word in Italian that covers both the words “home” and “house” and that is casa. casa house / home Here are the definite and indefinite articles used with the feminine noun …