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52 of the most frequent Italian describing words and small words, with the numbers from zero to a thousand: adjectives of quality and state, adverbs, quantities and counting words, each with an original example sentence and its translation.

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Learn deck · part of Italian A1–A2 · written against: CEFR A1–A2; standard Italian; the vocabulary is 600 of the most frequent everyday words of an OpenSubtitles 2018 frequency list, since no Italian exam publishes a word list. Updated 2026-10-10.

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  1. alto / alta (adj.)
    tall; high

    Mio padre è molto alto. — My father is very tall.

    Note: The opposite is basso; leggere ad alta voce = to read aloud.
    Describing words › Size & shape
  2. grosso / grossa (adj.)
    big, large; thick

    Nel giardino c'è un cane molto grosso. — In the garden there's a very big dog.

    Watch out: False friend: it never means gross (disgusting is schifoso). grosso is big and bulky; grande is big in general.
    Describing words › Size & shape
  3. intero / intera (adj.)
    whole, entire

    Mio figlio mangia una pizza intera da solo. — My son eats a whole pizza by himself.

    Note: latte intero = whole milk.
    Describing words › Size & shape
  4. nero / nera (adj.)
    black

    La nonna di Paolo porta sempre un cappotto nero. — Paolo's grandmother always wears a black coat.
    Describing words › Colour
  5. vero / vera (adj.)
    true; real

    Nonno, questa storia del lupo è vera? — Grandpa, is this story about the wolf true?

    Note: At the end of a sentence, …, vero? asks for agreement: right? / isn't it?
    Describing words › Quality & state
  6. zero (num.)
    zero

    Oggi a Milano ci sono zero gradi. — It's zero degrees in Milan today.

    Note: Plural gli zeri. Phone numbers are often read digit by digit: zero sei…
    Small words & numbers › Numbers
  7. uno (num.)
    one

    Vorrei una camera per una notte. — I'd like a room for one night.

    Watch out: Before a noun it takes the forms of the article: un libro, uno zaino, una casa, un'ora.
    Small words & numbers › Numbers
  8. due (num.)
    two

    Prendo due caffè e un cornetto. — I'll have two coffees and a croissant.
    Small words & numbers › Numbers
  9. tre (num.)
    three

    Il piccolo Luca ha già tre denti. — Little Luca already has three teeth.

    Watch out: On its own tre has no accent, but at the end of a compound it takes one: ventitré, trentatré.
    Small words & numbers › Numbers
  10. quattro (num.)
    four

    La macchina di Paolo ha quattro anni. — Paolo's car is four years old.

    Watch out: Age takes avere: ho quattro anni, never sono quattro anni.
    Small words & numbers › Numbers

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  • Word selection follows a frequency list of Italian content words (OpenSubtitles 2018 via hermitdave/FrequencyWords: word lists CC BY-SA 4.0, code MIT; lemmas by simplemma), cleaned by hand and banded to A1 by rank, with days, months, seasons and numbers added as a fixed group; meanings, gender and plurals checked against the Treccani and Garzanti online dictionaries. Reference only; all example sentences are original.

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