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### I salumi

Walk into any Italian food shop and the counter is hung with *salumi* — cured meats sold by the *fetta*. The two you must know: {{item:850200}}, the famous ham, and {{item:850203}}. Order them by weight or by slices, then eat them the Italian way: on bread, no butter needed.

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### I piatti

| dish | what arrives |
|---|---|
| {{item:850206}} | a steak, from the *macelleria* |
| {{item:850209}} | a roast, Sunday's slow oven dish |
| {{item:850212}} | soup with pasta or rice in it |
| {{item:850215}} | chunky soup, poured over bread |

*Minestra* and *zuppa* both translate as *soup*, but an Italian cook keeps them apart: a *minestra* has pasta or rice cooked in it, a *zuppa* is thick with vegetables or fish and meets bread in the bowl. With **si** — the impersonal you just learned — you can state how things are eaten here:

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### Sweet things, and what goes on bread

An Italian *colazione* is sweet: bread with {{item:850230}} and {{item:850221}}, or with {{item:850224}} if you keep bees happy. Inside pastries hides {{item:850233}} — the soft custard *il dolce* is filled with.

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### Sauce and juice

{{item:850218}} is the cooked sauce — *la salsa di pomodoro* above all — that dresses the pasta. And beside the *caffè*, the breakfast drink is {{item:850227}}: *un succo d'arancia*, *un succo di mela*.

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Sapori italiani (salumi e piatti)

adjective

adjective/adverb

adverb

conjunction

determiner

interjection

noun

numeral

preposition

pronoun

proper noun

sentence

verb

Subject pronouns and the verb to be (io sono)

Singular definite articles (il, la)

Singular demonstratives (questo, questa)

Basic verbal negation (non)

Yes/No questions

Coordinating conjunctions (e, ma, o)

Regular plurals and definite articles (-i, -e, i, le)

Plural verb to be (noi siamo, voi siete)

Plural demonstratives (questi, queste)

Nouns ending in -e

Special singular articles (lo, l')

The plural article (gli)

Special indefinite articles (uno, un')

Demonstrative adjectives (quello, quella)

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

Expressing quantity (molto, poco, tanto)

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

There is / there are (c'è, ci sono)

The preposition of (di)

Singular possessives (il mio, la mia)

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)

Plural possessive adjectives (i miei, le mie)

Possessives with family members (mio padre)

Formal address (dare del Lei)

Present tense of -are verbs (-o, -i, -a)

Question words (chi, cosa, dove)

Present tense of -ere verbs (-o, -i, -e)

Question words (quando, come, perché)

Question word agreement (quanto, quanta, quanti, quante)

Regular -ire verbs

Verbs with -isc- (capisco, capisci, capisce)

Pronouns after prepositions (me, te, lui)

The verb fare (faccio, fai, fa)

The verb andare (vado, vai, va)

The verb stare (sto, stai, sta)

The verb venire (vengo, vieni, viene)

The verb uscire (esco, esci, esce)

Location and destination (a, in)

Origin and movement (da)

Articulated prepositions with a (al, alla)

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Articulated prepositions with di and da (del, dal)

Simple prepositions (con, per, su, tra)

Articulated prepositions with su (sul, sulla)

Months of the year

Telling time (sono le...)

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Ordinal numbers 1st to 10th (primo, secondo, terzo...)

The verb to want (volere)

The verb can (potere)

The verb must (dovere)

The verb to know (sapere)

Reflexive verbs (mi lavo, ti lavi)

Indirect object pronouns (gli, le, ci...)

Expressing preferences (mi piace)

Plural preferences (mi piacciono)

Comparatives (più... di, meno... di)

The passato prossimo with avere (ho parlato)

Irregular past participles (fatto, letto, preso)

The passato prossimo with essere (sono andato)

Reflexive verbs in the past (mi sono svegliato)

Time adverbs with the past tense (già, mai, ancora)

Third-person direct object pronouns (lo, la, li, le)

First and second-person direct object pronouns (mi, ti, ci, vi)

The four seasons

Prepositions of place (vicino a, davanti a)

Conversational words (beh, allora, davvero)

Indefinite adjectives for some (qualche, alcuni)

Indefinite adjectives for every and all (ogni, tutti)

Indefinite pronouns (qualcosa, qualcuno)

Noun suffixes (-ino, -one)

Adverbs of manner (-mente)

Comparisons of equality (così... come)

The relative superlative (il più)

The absolute superlative (-issimo)

Irregular comparatives (migliore, peggiore)

Present progressive (stare + -ando, -endo)

Imminent actions (stare per)

The locative pronoun (ci)

The partitive pronoun (ne)

Pronoun placement with modal verbs

Impersonal subjects (si)

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

Past participle agreement with pronouns

Question	Answer
the ham (prosciutto)	il prosciutto
I eat bread and ham.	Mangio pane e prosciutto.
I buy three slices of ham.	Compro tre fette di prosciutto.
the salami	il salame
I buy the salami at the butcher shop.	Compro il salame in macelleria.
Do you want a slice of salami?	Vuoi una fetta di salame?
the steak	la bistecca
I cook the steak in the frying pan.	Cucino la bistecca in padella.
I ate a big steak.	Ho mangiato una bistecca grande.
the roast	l'arrosto
Grandma makes the roast on Sundays.	La nonna prepara l'arrosto la domenica.
The roast is cooking in the oven.	L'arrosto cuoce nel forno.
the soup (with pasta or rice)	la minestra
The soup is hot.	La minestra è calda.
I eat the soup with the spoon.	Mangio la minestra con il cucchiaio.
the soup (chunky, with bread)	la zuppa
I make a vegetable soup.	Preparo una zuppa di verdure.
Here people eat fish soup.	Qui si mangia la zuppa di pesce.
the sauce	la salsa
I make the tomato sauce.	Preparo la salsa di pomodoro.
I eat the pasta with the sauce.	Mangio la pasta con la salsa.
the jam	la marmellata
At breakfast I eat bread and jam.	A colazione mangio pane e marmellata.
I eat a slice of bread with jam.	Mangio una fetta di pane con la marmellata.
the honey	il miele
I put honey in the tea.	Metto il miele nel tè.
Do you want honey in the hot milk?	Vuoi il miele nel latte caldo?
the juice	il succo
I drink an orange juice.	Bevo un succo d'arancia.
The child drinks the apple juice.	Il bambino beve il succo di mela.
the butter	il burro
I put the butter on the bread.	Metto il burro sul pane.
I cook the fish in butter.	Cucino il pesce nel burro.
the cream (custard)	la crema
The cake has custard inside.	La torta ha la crema dentro.
Grandma makes the dessert with custard.	La nonna prepara il dolce con la crema.

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