Italian English --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- abbandonare ........................................................ to abandon abbassare .......................................................... to lower, to let down, to pull down abbracciare ........................................................ to hug, to embrace abbinare ........................................................... to match (as in colors) abbronzare ......................................................... to tan abituarsi .......................................................... to get used to accarezzare ........................................................ to pet, to flirt with accennare .......................................................... to mention, to suggest accendere .......................................................... to light, to kindle accettare .......................................................... to accept, to take accogliere ......................................................... to welcome, to receive (as in receiving a guest) accompagnare ....................................................... to accompany accoppare .......................................................... to kill (with violence) accoppiare ......................................................... to couple, to pair off, to match up accorgersi (di) .................................................... to notice (the more frequent version), to become aware of (the more frequent version) addestrare ......................................................... to train addormentarsi ...................................................... to fall asleep aderire ............................................................ to adhere adorare ............................................................ to adore affacciare ......................................................... to lean out affacciarsi ........................................................ to look out (like out of a window) affannare .......................................................... to trouble affermare .......................................................... to affirm afferrare .......................................................... to seize, to grasp, to hold on to affiggere .......................................................... to attach, to affix affliggere ......................................................... to afflict, to distress affrettarsi ........................................................ to hasten, to hurry aggiungere ......................................................... to add aiutare ............................................................ to help, to aid allagare ........................................................... to flood allenare ........................................................... to train allontanarsi ....................................................... to wander off, to drift apart alludere ........................................................... to allude, to refer, to hint alzare ............................................................. to lift up, to raise alzarsi ............................................................ to get up, to stand up, to rise ammazzare .......................................................... to kill ammettere .......................................................... to admit ammirare ........................................................... to admire andare ............................................................. to go andarsene .......................................................... to go away annaffiare ......................................................... to water annegare ........................................................... to drown annoiare ........................................................... to bore, to annoy annoiarsi .......................................................... to be bored ansimare ........................................................... to pant anticipare ......................................................... to anticipate, to advance apparecchiare ...................................................... to prepare, to set apparire ........................................................... to appear, to seem appartenere ........................................................ to belong apprendere, imparare ............................................... to learn approfittare ....................................................... to ake advantage of, to cash in on aprire ............................................................. to open ardere, bruciare ................................................... to burn arrabbiarsi ........................................................ to get angry arruffare .......................................................... to mess up, to ruffle attraversare ....................................................... to traverse, to go across fermare, smettere .................................................. to stop cesare ............................................................. to stop, to cease argomentare ........................................................ to deduce, to infer arrangiarsi ........................................................ to make do arredare ........................................................... to furnish arrestare .......................................................... to arrest arrivare ........................................................... to arrive asciugare .......................................................... to dry assaggiare ......................................................... to taste assalire ........................................................... to assail, to assault assicurare ......................................................... to ensure assistere .......................................................... to assist associare .......................................................... to associate assomigliare ....................................................... to resemble assumere ........................................................... to assume, to hire, to take (as in take a drug) attaccare .......................................................... to attach, attack attirare ........................................................... to attract attendere, aspettare ............................................... to wait for attribuire ......................................................... to attribute, to ascribe aumentare .......................................................... to increase, to boost, to step up avere .............................................................. to have, to get notare ............................................................. to notice (begins with 'n'), to realize avvedersi .......................................................... to perceive, to notice (the less frequent version), to become aware (the less frequent version) avvenire, succedere, capitare ...................................... to happen, to occur avvicinare ......................................................... to approach avvincere .......................................................... to fascinate, to captivate, to engross avvisare ........................................................... to warn, to advise baciare ............................................................ to kiss ballare ............................................................ to dance benedire ........................................................... to bless bere ............................................................... to drink bestemmiare ........................................................ to curse bisbigliare ........................................................ to whisper bloccare ........................................................... to block, to close off bocciare ........................................................... to fail (to fail somebody like your teacher does in school), to reject bollire ............................................................ to boil bruciarsi .......................................................... to burn oneself burlarsi ........................................................... to make fun of, to laugh at bussare ............................................................ to knock buttare ............................................................ to throw (as in to throw away, or to throw pasta to boil) buttarsi ........................................................... to throw oneself into aver bisogno di .................................................... to need (as in to need something) dovere ............................................................. to have to, must cadere, cascare .................................................... to fall, to fall down calcolare .......................................................... to calculate, to compute calmarsi ........................................................... to calm oneself down cambiare ........................................................... to change cambiare idea ...................................................... to change one's mind camminare .......................................................... to walk cancellare ......................................................... to cancel, to erase, to cross out, to rub out cantare ............................................................ to sing capire, comprendere, intendere (different meaning than 'to intend') to understand catturare .......................................................... to capture, to catch[[as in catching a criminal], to apprehend, to arrest intendere .......................................................... to intend, to mean causare ............................................................ to cause cedere ............................................................. to give in, to give way, to yield, to cede festeggiare, celebrare ............................................. to celebrate cercare ............................................................ to look for, to seek, to search for chiacchierare ...................................................... to chat chiamare ........................................................... to call chiedere ........................................................... to ask chiedersi .......................................................... to ask oneself, to wonder chiudere ........................................................... to close, to shut chinare ............................................................ to bend, to bow cogliere ........................................................... to gather (as in gathering flowers), to pick (as in pick a flower), to catch colpire ............................................................ to hit, to strike (as in to hit) cominciare ......................................................... to start, to begin, to commence commettere ......................................................... to commit commuovere ......................................................... to move (figuratively), to touch (figuratively), to affect (as in affect someone's feelings) comparire .......................................................... to appear compiacere ......................................................... to please, to comply, to satisfy comporre ........................................................... to compose comportarsi bene ................................................... to behave oneself comportarsi ........................................................ to behave comprare ........................................................... to buy comunicare ......................................................... to communicate concedere .......................................................... to concede consegnare ......................................................... to deliver consistere ......................................................... to consist consumare .......................................................... to consume concludere ......................................................... to conclude condurre ........................................................... to lead, to conduct confondere ......................................................... to confound, to confuse conoscere .......................................................... to know (as in to have knowledge of), to meet (as in to first become acquainted with) contendere ......................................................... to contend contenere .......................................................... to contain contraddire ........................................................ to contradict contrarre .......................................................... to contract, to catch (as in catch a cold), to incur convertire ......................................................... to convert convincere ......................................................... to convince coprire ............................................................ to cover correggere ......................................................... to correct correre ............................................................ to run corrispondere ...................................................... to correspond corrompere ......................................................... to corrupt costringere ........................................................ to force, to compel costruire .......................................................... to construct, to build credere ............................................................ to believe crescere ........................................................... to grow, to increase cucinare ........................................................... to cook cucire ............................................................. to sew cuocere ............................................................ to cook (as used before "to cook") curvare ............................................................ to bend dare ............................................................... to give decidere ........................................................... to decide deliberare ......................................................... to deliberate depositare ......................................................... to deposit derubare ........................................................... to rob descrivere ......................................................... to describe desiderare ......................................................... to desire determinare ........................................................ to determine detestare .......................................................... to detest dettare ............................................................ to dictate difendere .......................................................... to defend, to guard against diffondere ......................................................... to diffuse, to spread digerire ........................................................... to digest dimenticare ........................................................ to forget dimonstrare ........................................................ to demonstrate dipendere .......................................................... to depend dipingere .......................................................... to paint, to depict dire ............................................................... to say, to tell dirigere ........................................................... to direct dirottare .......................................................... to head off, to hijack disarmare .......................................................... to disarm discendere ......................................................... to descend, to go down, to come down discorrere ......................................................... to talk (not parlare, begins with 'd' but different from 'discutere'), to chat (the less common version) distendere ......................................................... to stretch, to reach out, to sprawl, to spread out discutere .......................................................... to discuss disfare ............................................................ to undo disgustare ......................................................... to disgust disperare .......................................................... to despair dispiacere ......................................................... to displease, to be sorry disporre ........................................................... to arrange dissolvere ......................................................... to dissolve, to melt distinguere ........................................................ to distinguish distrarre .......................................................... to distract distruggere ........................................................ to destroy divenire, diventare ................................................ to become divertirsi ......................................................... to have a good time, to amuse oneself, to enjoy oneself dividere ........................................................... to divide dolere ............................................................. to suffer pain, to ache domandare .......................................................... to ask (begins with a 'd') dormire ............................................................ to sleep dovere (condizionale) .............................................. ought, should, must, to have to, owe eleggere ........................................................... to elect elevare ............................................................ to elevate, to raise up (as in to elevate), to lift up eliminare .......................................................... to eliminate emergere ........................................................... to emerge, to surface, to appear emettere ........................................................... to emit, to give out (as in to give out a light) entrare ............................................................ to enter esagerare .......................................................... to exaggerate considerare, esaminare ............................................. to examine, to consider esasperare ......................................................... to exasperate, to irritate esaurire ........................................................... to exhaust, to wear out, to use up escludere .......................................................... to exclude, to leave out, to shut out esibire ............................................................ to exhibit, to show, to display esistere ........................................................... to exist, to be (as in to exist) esprimere .......................................................... to express, to articulate, to pronounce esporre ............................................................ to expound essere ............................................................. to be essere un caso ..................................................... to be a coincidence essere in grado di, riuscire ....................................... to be capable of essere sveglio ..................................................... to be cunning estendere .......................................................... to extend estenuante ......................................................... to exhaust evitare ............................................................ to avoid facilitare ......................................................... to facilitate, to make easier fallire ............................................................ to fail (like you failed at a task, but not at a test in school), to go bankrupt falsificare ........................................................ to falsify, to forge (as in forge a check), to fake fare ............................................................... to do, to make ferire ............................................................. to wound fermarsi ........................................................... to stop (oneself) fidarsi ............................................................ to trust, to confide fingere ............................................................ to feign, to pretend finire ............................................................. to finish firmare ............................................................ to sign fissare ............................................................ to stare fondere ............................................................ to fuse, to melt formare ............................................................ to form, to create friggere ........................................................... to fry fuggire ............................................................ to flee, to escape fumare ............................................................. to smoke funzionare ......................................................... to function garantire .......................................................... to guarantee generare ........................................................... to generate, to breed gestire ............................................................ to manage, to administrate gettare ............................................................ to throw (like to throw a ball or to throw away), to case giacere, sdraiarsi ................................................. to lay down, to lie (as in to lay down) giocare ............................................................ to play (a game) girare ............................................................. to turn giudicare .......................................................... to judge giungere ........................................................... to arrive (starts with 'g') giurare, bestemmiare ............................................... to swear giustificare ....................................................... to justify glorificare ........................................................ to glorify, to praise godere ............................................................. to enjoy governare .......................................................... to govern, to rule graffiare, cicatrizzare, sfigurare, sfregiare ...................... to scar sgraffiare, sfregare ............................................... to scratch gridare ............................................................ to shout, to scream, to cry out guadagnare ......................................................... to gain, to earn guardare ........................................................... to look at guarire ............................................................ to heal, to recover guidare ............................................................ to drive, to guide gustare ............................................................ to enjoy, to relish galleggiare ........................................................ to float