Learn Italian: La padella è ancora calda. - The frying pan is still hot.

La padella è ancora calda.

The frying pan is still hot.

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Wait, doesn't calda mean cold?

It is a classic false friend! In Italian, caldo and its feminine form calda actually mean hot or warm. If you want to say cold, you need the word freddo (or fredda).

Why does the word for hot end in "-a" here (calda) instead of "-o" (caldo)?

Adjectives in Italian have to match the gender and number of the noun they describe. Because padella (frying pan) is a feminine singular noun, the adjective changes its ending to match, becoming calda.

I've seen ancora used to mean "again" or "yet". How do I know it means "still" here?

Context tells us! Ancora is a very versatile word. In a positive sentence describing an ongoing state, like this one, it usually means still. If used with an action verb, it often means again. If the sentence were negative (like non è ancora calda), it would translate to yet.