Domani cambiamo casa e portiamo i libri nel nuovo appartamento.

In Italian, the present tense is very often used for near-future actions, especially when there is a clear time expression like domani (tomorrow).

So Domani cambiamo casa literally looks like Tomorrow we change house, but it naturally means Tomorrow we’re moving house.

This works much like English I’m leaving tomorrow or We move tomorrow, where a present form can refer to the future because the time is already clear.

Italian could also use a future form in some contexts, but here the present is completely normal and very common.

Yes, literally it is to change house, but idiomatically cambiare casa means:

• to move house
• to move home
• to move to a different house/apartment

This is a very common Italian expression. English uses move, while Italian often uses change in this phrase.

So:

• Cambiamo casa = We’re moving house

In the expression cambiare casa, Italian normally does not use an article. It functions like a fixed expression.

So:

• cambiare casa = to move house
• not usually cambiare la casa in this meaning

If you said cambiare la casa, it would sound more like changing a specific house in some special context, not the normal everyday idea of moving home.

This is one of those combinations that learners usually just need to memorize as a set phrase.

Yes. Traslocare is the verb that more directly means to move house / relocate.

So these are both possible:

• Domani cambiamo casa
• Domani traslochiamo

The difference is mainly one of expression:

• cambiare casa is a very common everyday phrase
• traslocare is also common and slightly more direct about the act of moving

In many situations, they are very close in meaning.

Italian often omits subject pronouns when they are not needed, because the verb ending already shows the subject.

Here:

• cambiamo = we change / we are changing
• portiamo = we bring / we are bringing

The ending -iamo tells you the subject is noi (we), so Italian usually leaves noi out unless it is needed for emphasis or contrast.

For example:

• Domani cambiamo casa = normal
• Domani noi cambiamo casa = possible, but more emphatic, like we are the ones moving tomorrow

Portare can often correspond to either bring or take in English, depending on the point of view.

Here, portiamo i libri nel nuovo appartamento means we are moving the books to the new apartment. In natural English, that could be:

• we’re taking the books to the new apartment
• or we’re bringing the books into the new apartment

Italian uses portare without making the same strict distinction English often makes between bring and take.

So the important idea is: the books are being moved to the new place.

Italian usually uses the definite article more often than English.

So i libri literally means the books, but depending on context, English might translate it simply as books.

In Italian, with plural countable nouns in a specific situation like this, the article is very normal:

• portiamo i libri = we’re taking the books

Using libri without an article here would sound incomplete or unnatural in standard Italian.

Nel is the contraction of:

• in + il = nel

Italian commonly combines certain prepositions with definite articles.

So:

• nel nuovo appartamento = in the new apartment

Other common combinations are:

• in + lo = nello
• in + la = nella
• in + i = nei
• in + gli = negli
• in + le = nelle

These combined forms are standard and normally required.

Both adjective positions are possible in Italian, but they can sound slightly different.

In nel nuovo appartamento, the adjective comes before the noun. This is very common with adjectives like nuovo, especially when the meaning is simply new in a general, descriptive sense.

So:

• il nuovo appartamento = the new apartment

If you put the adjective after the noun, appartamento nuovo, it can sometimes sound more literal or contrastive, as if emphasizing that the apartment is newly built or actually new rather than old. Context matters, but nuovo appartamento is the most natural choice here.

E simply means and.

Italian does not need to repeat the subject after e if it stays the same. Since both verbs refer to we, Italian just uses the two verbs one after the other:

• cambiamo casa e portiamo i libri...

This is the same idea as English:

• We’re moving house and taking the books...

You only repeat the subject if you want emphasis or if the subject changes.

It is not fixed at the beginning. Italian word order is fairly flexible, especially with time expressions.

All of these are possible:

• Domani cambiamo casa e portiamo i libri nel nuovo appartamento.
• Cambiamo casa domani e portiamo i libri nel nuovo appartamento.
• Portiamo i libri nel nuovo appartamento domani.

Putting Domani first is very natural because it sets the time immediately. It gives the sentence a clear starting point: Tomorrow...

Yes. Appartamento refers to the kind of home English calls an apartment or a flat.

So depending on the variety of English:

• American English: apartment
• British English: flat

The Italian word stays the same.

Yes. The sentence presents two coordinated actions connected by e:

• cambiamo casa
• portiamo i libri nel nuovo appartamento

Because of Domani, both actions are understood as happening tomorrow.

So the time expression applies to the whole sentence, not just the first verb. That is very normal in Italian.