Italian household vocabulary: 299 words
Rooms, furniture and the objects around you at home (English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese). This page lists 40 of them with their Italian translations, then lets you practise the full set in either direction with spaced repetition.
English to Italian: the first 40 words
| English | Italian | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| home | casa | The feeling of belonging and comfort, not the building itself. |
| house | casa | |
| room | stanza | |
| bedroom | camera da letto | |
| kitchen | cucina | |
| bathroom | bagno | |
| hallway | corridoio | |
| stairs | scale | |
| door | porta | |
| window | finestra | |
| wall | muro | |
| ceiling | soffitto | |
| floor | pavimento | |
| roof | tetto | |
| basement | seminterrato | |
| attic | soffitta | |
| closet | armadio | A storage room or cabinet for clothes, not a private space. |
| furniture | mobili | |
| table | tavolo | |
| chair | sedia | |
| bed | letto | |
| sofa | divano | |
| couch | divano | Informal word for sofa; the words are interchangeable. |
| desk | scrivania | |
| shelf | scaffale | |
| cabinet | armadietto | Furniture for storage, not a government body. |
| drawer | cassetto | |
| cupboard | credenza | |
| counter | bancone | |
| sink | lavello | A basin for washing, not something that goes down in water. |
| oven | forno | |
| refrigerator | frigorifero | |
| freezer | congelatore | |
| microwave | microonde | |
| dishwasher | lavastoviglie | |
| faucet | rubinetto | |
| bathtub | vasca da bagno | |
| shower | doccia | |
| mirror | specchio | |
| lamp | lampada |
259 more words in the full “Home & Everyday Objects” library, each aligned across seven languages and scheduled for you by spaced repetition. Add it to your account and start drilling English to Italian in one click.
What to watch out for in Italian
- Accents count. Answers are graded accent-sensitively, so you need
àèéìòóù— LinguaSwap shows a one-tap keypad for them while you type. - 136 words carry a usage note in the full library, for the cases where a direct translation would mislead you.
Practise Italian household vocabulary
Words come back just before you would forget them, and every language direction is tracked separately.