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Italian A1 — Core Words: Time, Places, Food & Free Time flashcards

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The days, months and seasons, then 42 of the most frequent Italian A1 words: time, shopping and money, getting around, nature and free time, 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. i soldi (n.m.pl.)
    money

    Non ho soldi per il cinema. — I don't have money for the cinema.

    Watch out: Plural in Italian: i soldi sono pochi = there isn't much money. il denaro is the formal word.
    Food & shopping
  2. pagare (v.) (io pago, noi paghiamo)
    to pay; to pay for

    Stasera pago io la cena. — Tonight I'm paying for dinner.

    Watch out: No word for for: pagare il caffè = to pay for the coffee.
    Food & shopping
  3. arrivare (v.) (io arrivo, noi arriviamo)
    to arrive; to get (somewhere) (passato prossimo: sono arrivato/a)

    Il treno arriva a Milano alle nove. — The train gets to Milan at nine.

    Watch out: a before a city, in before a country: arrivo a Roma, arrivo in Italia.
    Town & travel
  4. la polizia (n.f.)
    police

    C'è un incidente, chiama la polizia! — There's an accident, call the police!

    Watch out: Singular in Italian: la polizia arriva = the police are coming.
    Town & travel
  5. lunedì (n.m.)
    Monday

    Lunedì comincio un lavoro nuovo. — On Monday I start a new job.

    Note: No article for one Monday: lunedì = this Monday; il lunedì = on Mondays, every Monday.
    Time & weather
  6. martedì (n.m.)
    Tuesday

    Il corso di yoga è martedì sera. — The yoga class is on Tuesday evening.

    Watch out: Days are written lowercase: martedì, not Martedì, except at the start of a sentence.
    Time & weather
  7. la terra (n.f.)
    earth; ground, floor; land

    Il bambino gioca per terra. — The child is playing on the floor.

    Note: per terra = on the floor, on the ground; la Terra, capitalised, is the planet.
    Nature & the world
  8. il cane (n.m.)
    dog

    Porto fuori il cane ogni sera. — I take the dog out every evening.

    Note: Attenti al cane = Beware of the dog.
    Nature & the world
  9. la storia (n.f.)
    story; history

    Ogni sera Nadia racconta ai gemelli una storia sul drago del castello. — Every evening Nadia tells the twins a story about the castle dragon.

    Note: The same word is the school subject: studio storia = I study history.
    Free time & culture
  10. giocare (v.) (io gioco, noi giochiamo)
    to play (a game or sport)

    Il giovedì sera gioco a scacchi con il signor Bassi. — On Thursday evenings I play chess with Mr Bassi.

    Watch out: giocare a + a sport or game; an instrument takes suonare: suono la chitarra.
    Free time & culture

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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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