Questions & Answers about Io lavoro bene con Marco.
How do we get lavoro from the dictionary word for "to work"?
The dictionary form of the verb is lavorare (to work). To say "I work" in the present tense, you drop the -are ending to get the base of the word (lavor-) and add the "I" ending, which is -o. This gives us lavoro.
Since lavoro already means "I work", do I have to use the word io?
I thought lavoro meant "a job". Is it a noun or a verb here?
It can be both! As a noun, il lavoro means "the job" or "the work". But here, because it follows io (I), it is the "I" form of the verb lavorare. You can usually tell the difference by looking at the surrounding words: an article like il means it's a noun, while a subject pronoun like io means it's a verb.