Italian Vocabulary

You might expect "why" and "because" to be two separate words, the way they are in English. In Italian they are the same word, perché, and that kind of small surprise runs all through Italian vocabulary, which these quizzes cover topic by topic.

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💬 Basic Phrases

Heading to Italy and want phrases you can use right away? These quizzes drop you into real situations, from ordering a coffee to asking for directions.

💼💹 Business

Need to talk shop in Italian? These quizzes cover the business vocabulary you would hear in a boardroom, a financial report, or a marketing meeting.

🎨 Colors (match)

Ready to describe the world in Italian? These quizzes cover the colors, from the five basics to the words for light, dark, and every shade in between.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Describing People (match)

How do you describe someone's looks, mood, and character in Italian? These quizzes build a full vocabulary for talking about people, one group at a time.

🎬 Entertainment

Want to talk about books, films, and live shows in Italian? These quizzes cover entertainment vocabulary, from the bookshelf to the box office.

🚗✈️ Getting There

Planning a trip to Italy? These quizzes give you the travel vocabulary you need, from the train station and airport to the hotel front desk.

🌿🦋 Nature (match)

Do you know the Italian words for animals, plants, and the weather? These quizzes build a core nature vocabulary, from the garden right up to the sky.

💯 Numbers

Need to count, give a price, or catch a room number in Italian? These quizzes train your ear for Italian numbers, from single digits up to a hundred.

🏡 At Home (match)

Want to name every room and item in an Italian home? These quizzes build your household vocabulary, from the kitchen to the staircase, one small set at a time.

👷👩‍💼 Occupations

How do you say what someone does for a living in Italian? These quizzes cover job titles across offices, hospitals, the arts, and the trades.

❓🧩 Asking Questions (match)

How do you ask "why," "what," or "how much" in Italian? Question words are the key that unlocks real conversation, and these quizzes drill the most important ones.

📚🎒 School (match)

Heading into an Italian classroom? These quizzes give you the school vocabulary you need, from subjects and supplies to the people and the daily routine.

🏷️️🛍️ Shopping (match)

Want to shop confidently in Italy, from finding your size to paying at the till? These quizzes cover Italian shopping vocabulary for the whole trip.

⏰ Time

Want to tell time in Italian without stumbling over the numbers? These quizzes walk you through saying the hour, naming the days, and adding the greetings that come up in the same breath, so you can start talking about your daily schedule with confidence.

Essential Italian Vocabulary for Beginners

Each quiz works five words three ways, through matching, a fill-in-the-blank sentence, and a full translation. You will learn question words like dove (where), home words such as the frigorifero (refrigerator), colors like rosso (red), travel words including treno (train), and numbers from uno (one) to cento (one hundred).

The sets stretch into describing people, jobs, school, shopping, business, nature, entertainment, and telling time, so you build a wide beginner vocabulary. Using each word in a sentence, not just matching it, is what helps it truly stick.

Italian Words with Audio Pronunciation

Italian is famously musical, and hearing it helps, so every quiz includes audio of each term. Listening to a word like frigorifero (refrigerator) makes its rhythm and stress far easier to copy, and it is almost always shortened to frigo in everyday speech anyway.

The False Friends to Watch

A few words look like English but mean something else. Camera (room) is a room, such as a hotel room, not a photo camera, and rivista (magazine) looks like "review" but simply means a magazine.

A few of these words wear their history on their sleeve. Scrivania (desk) comes from scrivere (to write), so it literally means a writing surface, unlike a plain tavolo (table), and lavagna (board) borrows its name from an Italian town once famous for dark slate.

Learning each topic in a small group keeps a wide vocabulary from piling up too fast, so by the end you can move from the kitchen to the train station to the office without reaching for English.

Start with whichever slice of Italian life you want first, from the home to the train station, and try these interactive Italian quizzes.