Shopping Verbs

By the end of this quiz, you will know five Italian verbs essential for any shopping trip: how to buy, pay, search, return, and try things on. Work through three rounds of word matching, gap-fill sentences, and full translations to build confidence with these everyday action words.

Like its equivalent in other Romance languages, provare covers two situations: trying on clothing in a fitting room and tasting or testing something. Context always makes the meaning clear: voglio provare questa giacca means trying it on, while voglio provare la zuppa means tasting the soup.