Learn Italian: Chi fa le pulizie a casa tua? - Who does the cleaning at your house?

Chi fa le pulizie a casa tua?

Who does the cleaning at your house?

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Questions & Answers about Chi fa le pulizie a casa tua?

Why use fa instead of the present progressive sta facendo?

This sentence asks about a general habit or routine ("Who usually does the cleaning?"), so it uses the normal present tense. If you walked into the house and heard a vacuum, you would use the present progressive and ask Chi sta facendo le pulizie? to mean "Who is cleaning right now?"

Why is "cleaning" translated as a plural phrase, le pulizie?

In Italian, general household cleaning is usually treated as a plural concept. The standard set phrase for "doing chores" or "cleaning the house" is fare le pulizie (literally "to do the cleanings").

I learned that possessives usually need an article, like la tua. Why is it just casa tua here?

The word casa is a common exception. When talking about being at someone's home, you drop the article and put the possessive after the noun. This is why we say a casa mia (at my house) and a casa tua (at your house).

Why does chi take the third-person singular verb fa? What if I expect a plural answer?

Just like the English word "who", chi always acts as a singular subject, even if you suspect multiple people do the cleaning. You will always use the "he/she/it" form of the verb right after chi.