Italian shopping vocabulary: 300 words
Prices, sizes, clothing and paying — vocabulary for shopping (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 |
|---|---|---|
| shop | negozio | |
| store | negozio | A retail establishment; in some regions, can also mean a large supermarket. |
| shopping centre | centro commerciale | |
| supermarket | supermercato | |
| price | prezzo | |
| money | soldi | |
| cash | contanti | Physical coins and notes, not electronic payment. |
| card | carta | Payment card (credit, debit, or similar). |
| receipt | scontrino | The printed proof of purchase, not a recipe. |
| change | resto | Money handed back after paying, not a change of plan. |
| discount | sconto | |
| sale | saldi | A period of reduced prices, not the act of selling. |
| offer | offerta | |
| free | gratis | Costing nothing; not at liberty or without obligation. |
| expensive | caro | |
| cheap | economico | |
| size | taglia | |
| big | grande | |
| small | piccolo | |
| medium | medio | |
| colour | colore | |
| red | rosso | |
| blue | blu | |
| green | verde | |
| black | nero | |
| white | bianco | |
| clothes | vestiti | |
| shirt | camicia | A button-up garment, typically formal or semi-formal. |
| t-shirt | maglietta | |
| trousers | pantaloni | Leg garment extending to the ankle; the plural form is standard. |
| dress | vestito | |
| skirt | gonna | |
| jacket | giacca | |
| coat | cappotto | |
| shoes | scarpe | |
| socks | calzini | |
| hat | cappello | |
| gloves | guanti | |
| scarf | sciarpa | |
| belt | cintura |
260 more words in the full “Shopping” 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
- 53 of these 300 words are near-identical in English and Italian (18%) —
jeans,blazer,boutique. Those are free; the value of drilling is in the rest. - Accents count. Answers are graded accent-sensitively, so you need
àèéìòóù— LinguaSwap shows a one-tap keypad for them while you type. - 98 words carry a usage note in the full library, for the cases where a direct translation would mislead you.
Practise Italian shopping vocabulary
Words come back just before you would forget them, and every language direction is tracked separately.