Ciao! In this lesson you will expand your Italian vocabulary by learning words that describe containers and quantities. In this way the next time you come to Italian you can go food shopping and ask for things like:
“un etto di prosciutto, una fetta di torta , un quarto di vino!”
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So first thing… how do you say shopping list?
In Italian you would say: “La lista della spesa”
Spesa is the Italian word for the shopping related to food.
So if you say : “Vado a fare la spesa” you are saying that you are going food shopping. if on the other hand you are not buying food but other goods… you can say:
So you can have containers like:
Now let’s look at quantities.
Be sure to remember to mach singular and plural:
un etto - ends with “o” and it’s singular
due etti - ends with “i” and it’s plural
Now… look at your grocery list and tell me in Italian what you will buy this week! Write a comment under the video!
Io comprerò due etti di prosciutto crudo, una barretta di cioccolato 4 cartoni di latte e un tubetto di dentifricio!
Remember that practicing by writing short sentences will boost your Italian in a soft and easy way! I will check and give you feedback on your comments!
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