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Puliamo il bagno comune, anche se è il suo turno.

Puliamo il bagno comune, anche se è il suo turno.
We are cleaning the shared bathroom, even if it is his turn.
From Lesson 144:Possessive pronouns (il mio, la tua)·Italian

Questions & Answers about Puliamo il bagno comune, anche se è il suo turno.

Why does it say il suo turno? Could it also mean "her turn"?
Yes, il suo can mean "his", "hers", or even the formal "yours". In Italian, the possessive agrees with the gender and number of the thing owned (in this case, the masculine singular noun turno), not the person who owns it. You need context to know exactly whose turn it is, though the translation here assumes "his".
Pulire is an "-isc-" verb. Why is the verb puliamo instead of "pulisciamo"?
Even for verbs that add -isc- in the present tense (like io pulisco, tu pulisci), the noi (we) and voi (you all) forms never use that extra chunk. They follow the standard conjugation pattern, making "we clean" simply puliamo.
Does anche se mean "even if" or "even though"?
It can mean both! Here it translates smoothly to "even if". It is helpful to know that when anche se is used to talk about a reality or a fact (like it currently being his turn), it is followed by normal tenses like the present tense è used here.
Why does the adjective comune end in "-e" instead of "-o" to match the masculine noun bagno?
Comune belongs to a category of adjectives that always end in -e in the singular, for both masculine and feminine nouns. So it is il bagno comune and also la cucina comune. If the noun were plural, the adjective would change to end in -i.

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