Put together some basilico (basil), pinoli (pine nuts), fresh parmigiano and aglio (garlic), along with some olio d’oliva (olive oil), succo di limone (lemon juice), and sale (salt), and what do you get? One of the most delicious sauces on the planet: pesto! pesto pesto sauce / black and blue Pesto is also widely known …
Some words in Italian you will hear multiple times during the course of the day, and dopo is one of them. What’s more, it can function, not only as an adverb, but also as a preposition, conjunction, adjective and noun – talk about flexible! dopo after / later / next 1. DOPO as an adverb …
Italian has the perfect word to complain about everything: fastidio. A person walks slower than us on the sidewalk and won’t move to the side? Che fastidio. Someone chewing with their mouth open two tables away? Mi dà troppo fastidio. Those high heels that looked so cute in the store but are now destroying our feet? Uuuh, un …
The Italian adjective molle is used to describe things that yield to touch or pressure. In English, we might use descriptors such as soft, flabby or damp depending on the object being described, but in Italian, molle neatly covers all these translations. molle soft / flabby / damp In Italian, adjectives always agree with the …
If you want to talk about older boys and young men in Italian, there is no better word than ragazzo. Let’s discover it now! ragazzo boy / guy / young man / boyfriend Ragazzo comes from the Arabic word raqqāṣ (رقّاص), which originally meant something like messenger, courier, or errand boy. This Arabic word was …
If an Italian tells you they have influenza, don’t immediately reach for the hand sanitiser. Yes, we might be home in bed, surviving on broth and re-rurns, but we could just as easily be casually letting you know we have certain power and connections. Because the word influenza in Italian wears two hats: it means …