Al mercato
Your shopping list — la lista — already has il limone, la carota and la cipolla on it. This lesson fills the sacchetto with the rest of the market stall: fruit and vegetables Italians buy every week.
La frutta
| Italian | English |
|---|---|
| la pera | the pear |
| la banana | the banana |
| la pesca | the peach |
| l'oliva | the olive |
Watch la pesca: it looks exactly like a form of pescare — to fish. At the market, though, nobody is fishing: una pesca is a peach. And yes, the olive is technically fruit — Italians buy le olive beside the vegetables and eat them before dinner.
| The peaches are good: they are in season. | Le pesche sono buone: sono di stagione. |
La verdura
| Italian | English |
|---|---|
| il pisello | the pea |
| il cavolo | the cabbage |
| l'aglio | the garlic |
| il fungo | the mushroom |
L'aglio mostly stays singular — one head is plenty — while i piselli and i funghi usually come in plurals. With un chilo di or un sacchetto di, the market is yours:
| I buy a kilo of pears at the market. | Compro un chilo di pere al mercato. |
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