Puliamo e disinfettiamo la cuccia.

Italian often leaves the subject pronoun out because the verb ending already shows who is doing the action.

• puliamo = we clean / we are cleaning
• disinfettiamo = we disinfect / we are disinfecting

So noi is understood automatically. You could say Noi puliamo e disinfettiamo la cuccia, but it is usually unnecessary unless you want emphasis.

They are in the present indicative.

In English, this can translate in different ways depending on context:

• we clean
• we are cleaning
• sometimes even we do clean

Italian uses the present tense more broadly than English does.

Because both verbs are conjugated for first person plural: we.

• pulire → puliamo
• disinfettare → disinfettiamo

The ending -iamo is very common for we in the present tense.

The infinitives are:

• pulire = to clean
• disinfettare = to disinfect

So the sentence is built from two infinitives, both conjugated for we.

Italian uses articles more often than English.

Here, la cuccia means the kennel / the doghouse / the pet bed, referring to a specific one that the speaker and listener know about.

If you said una cuccia, that would mean a kennel / a doghouse / a pet bed, not a specific one.

Cuccia usually refers to an animal’s sleeping place, especially for a dog.

Depending on context, it can mean:

• doghouse
• kennel
• dog bed
• more generally, a pet’s little shelter or bed

So the most natural English translation depends on the situation.

Because cuccia is a feminine noun in Italian, so it takes the feminine singular article la.

• la cuccia = the kennel / doghouse / pet bed

Its gender is a grammar feature, not something logical you can always predict from meaning alone. You generally need to learn the noun together with its article.

Because la cuccia is the direct object of both verbs.

We are cleaning what?
→ la cuccia

We are disinfecting what?
→ la cuccia

Direct objects in Italian normally do not need a preposition.

Yes, in the right context, it could.

The forms puliamo and disinfettiamo can also be used as a first-person plural command:

• Puliamo e disinfettiamo la cuccia! = Let’s clean and disinfect the kennel!

So without context, the sentence can be understood either as:

• We clean and disinfect the kennel or
• Let’s clean and disinfect the kennel

Usually context or punctuation makes the meaning clear.

This is the normal and natural word order:

Verb + verb + object
Puliamo e disinfettiamo la cuccia.

Italian word order is fairly flexible, but this version is the most neutral. You could change the order for emphasis, but the basic sentence is completely standard.

A simple English-friendly guide is:

poo-LYAH-mo eh dee-seen-fet-TYAH-mo lah KOOT-chah

A few helpful points:

• gli/lia in puliamo sounds like lyah
• ti + a/o/e in -ttiamo sounds like tya
• ccia in cuccia sounds like cha
• Italian double consonants, like tt, are pronounced more strongly than in English

No. One object can belong to both verbs.

So:

• Puliamo e disinfettiamo la cuccia.

means that la cuccia is the thing being both cleaned and disinfected.

Repeating it would usually sound unnecessary unless you wanted special emphasis.