House Chores in Italian 🧹🍳
Welcome to Unit 6! Keeping a home clean and cooking meals are daily routines. In this lesson, you will learn how to describe basic household tasks using simple regular and irregular verbs.
Key Verbs
- Pulire – to clean
- Lavare – to wash
- Cucinare – to cook
These are regular verbs (except for some irregularities in 'pulire' which adds -isc- in present forms). Let's see them in action:
| Italian | English |
|---|---|
| Io pulisco la cucina. | I clean the kitchen. |
| Tu cucini la cena. | You cook dinner. |
Common Mistakes
Don't confuse lavare (to wash) with pulire (to clean in general). You wash clothes or dishes (lavare i piatti), but you clean the room (pulire la stanza).
Words
pulire
to clean
Io pulisco la casa.I clean the house.
lavare
to wash
Lavo i piatti.I wash the dishes.
cucinare
to cook
Cucino la cena.I cook dinner.
la cucina
the kitchen
La cucina è pulita.The kitchen is clean.
i piatti
the dishes
Lavo i piatti oggi.I wash the dishes today.
la casa
the house
La mia casa è piccola.My house is small.
la cena
dinner
La cena è pronta.Dinner is ready.
fare
to do / to make
Faccio le pulizie.I do the cleaning.
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Patterns
Io ___ la cucina.
English: I clean the kitchen. Use this to state you are cleaning.
Io pulisco la cucina.I clean the kitchen.
Lavo ___.
English: I wash [something]. Use this when washing dishes or clothes.
Lavo i piatti.I wash the dishes.
Cucino ___.
English: I cook [meal]. Use this when preparing food.
Cucino la cena.I cook dinner.