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.

Italian Occupations Vocabulary

Each quiz takes five jobs through matching, a fill-in-the-blank sentence, and a full translation. You will cover workplace roles like direttore (director), arts and education jobs such as artista (artist) and musicista (musician), healthcare roles like medico (doctor), and trades including falegname (carpenter).

These quizzes are aimed at beginners and come in handy for work or travel. Grouping jobs by setting, from the clinic to the workshop, makes a long list far easier to learn. You will also meet roles like giornalista (journalist) and giudice (judge) along the way.

Italian Job Titles with Audio Pronunciation

Saying a job title clearly matters in introductions, so every quiz includes audio pronunciation. Hearing a word like medico (doctor) helps you say what you do with confidence.

Did You Know?

Some job words stay the same for everyone. Words like artista (artist), musicista (musician), and giornalista (journalist) end in -a for men and women alike, with only the article changing to show gender.

One trade word is easy to get wrong. A woodworking carpenter is a falegname (carpenter), who makes furniture, while a carpentiere handles structural timber, so the two are not interchangeable.

How the Quizzes Work

Each quiz is short, about five minutes, and you can repeat any of the 6 sets until the titles feel familiar. Learning jobs by workplace gives each new word a context to stick to, and the translation round helps you use a title in a sentence rather than only recognize it, so a few rounds make the everyday jobs feel automatic. Some sets focus on a single field, like healthcare or the trades, so related words come together. Ready to talk about work in Italian? Browse the free interactive Italian quizzes and start with occupations.