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### Il bagno

Time to name what is actually in the Italian bathroom. You wash your hair with {{item:850119}} and your teeth with {{item:850122}} — a diminutive of *spazzola* (brush), built just like the diminutives you met earlier. Both take **lo**, the article for s + consonant words.

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You wash your face in {{item:850125}} — the sink, in the bathroom or in the kitchen. A long soak happens in {{item:850128}}, the bathtub (in full *la vasca da bagno*); the quick alternative is *la doccia*, which you already know.

### Gli elettrodomestici

Household machines are *gli elettrodomestici* — literally the electric domestics. The hardest-working one is {{item:850131}}, the washing machine: it deals with *il bucato* so you don't have to. Not a machine but just as essential for living: {{item:850134}}, the lamp.

### Due stanze in più

Two more parts of the home. {{item:850137}} is the living room — the same room as *il salotto*, but *soggiorno* is the neutral, floor-plan word you see in housing ads, while *salotto* has a cosier, sitting-room flavor. And the car sleeps in {{item:850140}} — borrowed from French and, like most foreign borrowings, unchanged in the plural.

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Il bagno e gli elettrodomestici

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adverb

conjunction

determiner

interjection

noun

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preposition

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sentence

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Definite articles and gender (il, la, l')

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Basic verbal negation (non)

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Special indefinite articles (uno, un')

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Adjective endings (-o, -a, -i, -e)

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The verb to have (ho, hai, ha...)

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The preposition of (di)

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Numbers 1 to 10 (uno, due, tre...)

Numbers 11 to 20 (undici, dodici...)

Numbers 21 to 100 (trenta, quaranta...)

Idiomatic avere (avere fame, avere anni)

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Indefinite pronouns (qualcosa, qualcuno)

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The locative pronoun (ci)

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Prepositions of time (da, per, tra, fra)

Past participle agreement with pronouns

Question	Answer
the shampoo	lo shampoo
I wash my hair with shampoo.	Mi lavo i capelli con lo shampoo.
The shampoo is finished: I am buying it tomorrow.	Lo shampoo è finito: lo compro domani.
the toothbrush	lo spazzolino
I brush my teeth with the toothbrush.	Mi lavo i denti con lo spazzolino.
I am buying a new toothbrush and the toothpaste.	Compro uno spazzolino nuovo e il dentifricio.
the sink	il lavandino
I wash my face in the sink.	Mi lavo il viso nel lavandino.
In the kitchen I wash the dishes in the sink.	In cucina lavo i piatti nel lavandino.
the bathtub	la vasca
The bathtub is full of hot water.	La vasca è piena di acqua calda.
Do you prefer the shower or the bathtub?	Preferisci la doccia o la vasca?
the washing machine	la lavatrice
The washing machine washes the laundry.	La lavatrice lava il bucato.
The washing machine is broken: what a problem!	La lavatrice è rotta: che problema!
the lamp	la lampada
The lamp is on the living-room table.	La lampada è sul tavolo del salotto.
I am buying a lamp for the bedroom.	Compro una lampada per la camera.
the living room (more formal than il salotto)	il soggiorno
We watch TV in the living room.	Guardiamo la tv in soggiorno.
The living room has a comfortable sofa.	Il soggiorno ha un divano comodo.
the garage	il garage
The car is in the garage.	La macchina è nel garage.
The garage is full of old boxes.	Il garage è pieno di scatole vecchie.

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