🇮🇹 Free Italian Vocabulary Flashcards
8 beginner decks covering the 157 most useful Italian words — every word listed below with its English translation, free to read and free to study with spaced repetition.
Start studying free →Why start with these Italian words?
Italian is often called the easiest language for beginners to pronounce — almost every word ends in a vowel, the spelling is regular, and the rhythm carries you. The decks above give you the first words you need in an Italian café, street or conversation: greetings, numbers, food (naturally), and the most useful verbs. Italian is also the closest major language to Latin, so it quietly teaches you the roots behind thousands of English words. Study ten cards a day with spaced repetition and read each word aloud with full, open vowels — half the joy of Italian is how it sounds.
How to study these decks
Read a deck below to preview every word, then sign up free to study it with spaced repetition — the method that schedules each card back right before you would forget it. Ten words a day is the sweet spot: enough to progress fast, small enough to sustain. Say each word out loud as you go, and practise English → Italian as well as the easier direction, because that is the one that lets you speak. For the method behind it, see our guide to learning a language with flashcards.
Numbers 1–20 20 cards
Counting is the first superpower in any language — prices, times, quantities and phone numbers all run on these twenty words.
| English | Italian (Italiano) |
|---|---|
| one | uno |
| two | due |
| three | tre |
| four | quattro |
| five | cinque |
| six | sei |
| seven | sette |
| eight | otto |
| nine | nove |
| ten | dieci |
| eleven | undici |
| twelve | dodici |
| thirteen | tredici |
| fourteen | quattordici |
| fifteen | quindici |
| sixteen | sedici |
| seventeen | diciassette |
| eighteen | diciotto |
| nineteen | diciannove |
| twenty | venti |
Greetings & Basics 18 cards
The polite essentials: hello, thank you, please, sorry — the twenty phrases that set the tone of every conversation you'll ever have.
| English | Italian (Italiano) |
|---|---|
| hi / bye | ciao |
| good morning | buongiorno |
| good evening | buonasera |
| good night | buonanotte |
| goodbye | arrivederci |
| see you soon | a presto |
| please | per favore |
| thank you | grazie |
| you're welcome | prego |
| yes | sì |
| no | no |
| excuse me | scusa / scusi |
| I'm sorry | mi dispiace |
| how are you? | come stai? |
| well, thanks | bene, grazie |
| nice to meet you | piacere |
| I don't understand | non capisco |
| do you speak English? | parli inglese? |
Days & Months 20 cards
Plans, bookings and birthdays: the days of the week and months of the year, plus 'today' — the vocabulary of every calendar conversation.
| English | Italian (Italiano) |
|---|---|
| Monday | lunedì |
| Tuesday | martedì |
| Wednesday | mercoledì |
| Thursday | giovedì |
| Friday | venerdì |
| Saturday | sabato |
| Sunday | domenica |
| January | gennaio |
| February | febbraio |
| March | marzo |
| April | aprile |
| May | maggio |
| June | giugno |
| July | luglio |
| August | agosto |
| September | settembre |
| October | ottobre |
| November | novembre |
| December | dicembre |
| today | oggi |
Family Words 19 cards
Mother, brother, grandmother, friend — the people words that come up in every getting-to-know-you conversation.
| English | Italian (Italiano) |
|---|---|
| mother | la madre |
| father | il padre |
| brother | il fratello |
| sister | la sorella |
| son | il figlio |
| daughter | la figlia |
| grandfather | il nonno |
| grandmother | la nonna |
| uncle | lo zio |
| aunt | la zia |
| cousin | il cugino / la cugina |
| wife | la moglie |
| husband | il marito |
| family | la famiglia |
| friend (m) | l'amico |
| friend (f) | l'amica |
| child | il bambino / la bambina |
| baby | il bebè |
| parents | i genitori |
Food & Drink 20 cards
Menus, markets and breakfast tables: the core food and drink words you'll use every single day abroad.
| English | Italian (Italiano) |
|---|---|
| water | l'acqua |
| bread | il pane |
| milk | il latte |
| coffee | il caffè |
| tea | il tè |
| beer | la birra |
| wine | il vino |
| cheese | il formaggio |
| egg | l'uovo |
| meat | la carne |
| chicken | il pollo |
| fish | il pesce |
| rice | il riso |
| fruit | la frutta |
| apple | la mela |
| vegetables | le verdure |
| salt | il sale |
| sugar | lo zucchero |
| breakfast | la colazione |
| dinner | la cena |
Travel & Directions 20 cards
Airports, tickets, left and right: the survival kit for getting anywhere — and for asking where anywhere is.
| English | Italian (Italiano) |
|---|---|
| airport | l'aeroporto |
| train | il treno |
| bus | l'autobus |
| car | la macchina |
| ticket | il biglietto |
| hotel | l'albergo |
| beach | la spiaggia |
| city | la città |
| street | la strada |
| map | la mappa |
| left | a sinistra |
| right | a destra |
| straight ahead | dritto |
| near | vicino |
| far | lontano |
| where is…? | dov'è…? |
| station | la stazione |
| luggage | i bagagli |
| passport | il passaporto |
| help | aiuto |
Colours & Adjectives 20 cards
Colours plus the little describing words — big, small, new, expensive — that make your sentences suddenly specific.
| English | Italian (Italiano) |
|---|---|
| red | rosso |
| blue | blu |
| green | verde |
| yellow | giallo |
| black | nero |
| white | bianco |
| orange | arancione |
| pink | rosa |
| purple | viola |
| grey | grigio |
| brown | marrone |
| big | grande |
| small | piccolo |
| new | nuovo |
| old | vecchio |
| beautiful | bello |
| ugly | brutto |
| expensive | caro |
| cheap | economico |
| good | buono |
20 Most Useful Verbs 20 cards
To be, to have, to want, to go: the twenty verbs that power the majority of everyday sentences.
| English | Italian (Italiano) |
|---|---|
| to be | essere |
| to have | avere |
| to do / make | fare |
| to go | andare |
| to come | venire |
| to want | volere |
| to be able to | potere |
| to speak | parlare |
| to eat | mangiare |
| to drink | bere |
| to live | vivere |
| to see | vedere |
| to know (facts) | sapere |
| to give | dare |
| to say | dire |
| to work | lavorare |
| to buy | comprare |
| to love | amare |
| to sleep | dormire |
| to take | prendere |