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100 of the most frequent Italian words after A1, part 1: travel and town, the body and health, feelings, work and study, everyday verbs and describing words, each with an original example sentence and its translation.

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  1. bisognare (v.) (bisogna)
    to be necessary; one must, you have to

    Per entrare nel museo bisogna prenotare online. — To get into the museum you have to book online.

    Watch out: Impersonal, third person only: bisogna + infinitive (bisognava, bisognerà, bisognerebbe). To need something is avere bisogno di.
    Essential verbs
  2. benvenuto / benvenuta (adj.)
    welcome

    Benvenuta in Italia, com'è andato il viaggio? — Welcome to Italy, how was the trip?

    Watch out: It agrees with the guest: benvenuto (a man), benvenuta (a woman), benvenuti (a group; benvenute if all are women).
    People & family
  3. i capelli (n.m.pl.)
    hair (on the head)

    A cinquant'anni mio padre ha già i capelli bianchi. — At fifty, my father's hair is already white.

    Watch out: Plural in Italian: i capelli sono lunghi. Un capello is a single hair; body hair is i peli.
    Body & health
  4. il cibo (n.m.)
    food

    Il cibo in quella trattoria è buono e non costa molto. — The food in that trattoria is good and it doesn't cost much.
    Food & shopping
  5. il viaggio (n.m.)
    trip, journey; travel

    Il viaggio in treno da Roma a Milano è durato tre ore. — The train journey from Rome to Milan took three hours.

    Note: Buon viaggio! = Have a good trip!
    Town & travel
  6. americano / americana (adj.)
    American

    La mia coinquilina è americana, di Boston. — My flatmate is American, from Boston.

    Watch out: Nationalities are lowercase in Italian: un ragazzo americano, gli americani.
    Nature & the world
  7. la carta (n.f.)
    paper; card

    Per il lavoretto di scuola servono carta colorata, colla e forbici. — For the school craft project we need coloured paper, glue and scissors.

    Note: la carta di credito = credit card; la carta d'identità = ID card.
    Work & study
  8. stupido / stupida (adj.)
    stupid, silly

    Scusa, è stata una domanda stupida. — Sorry, that was a silly question.

    Watch out: The stress is on the first syllable: STU-pi-do.
    Feelings & character
  9. raccontare (v.) (io racconto, noi raccontiamo)
    to tell (a story, what happened)

    Domani ti racconto tutto della festa di sabato. — Tomorrow I'll tell you all about Saturday's party.

    Watch out: raccontare is for stories and events; to tell someone to do something is dire: Mi ha detto di aspettare.
    Talking & thinking
  10. giù (adv.)
    down; downstairs

    Ti aspetto giù al bar, vieni quando sei pronto. — I'll wait for you down at the café; come when you're ready.

    Note: Write the accent. The opposite is su; su e giù = up and down.
    Small words & 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 A2 by rank; meanings, gender, plurals and verb forms checked against the Treccani and Garzanti online dictionaries, the Treccani grammar pages and Enciclopedia dell'Italiano, Il Nuovo De Mauro, the Cambridge Italian–English dictionary and the coniugazione.it conjugation tables, with usage counts from the OPUS OpenSubtitles v2018 Italian corpus and A2 placement against the Council of Europe CEFR descriptors. Reference only; all example sentences are original.

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