How to say "stairs" in Italian?

In Italian "stairs" translates to  scale 

Transliteration: skah-leh

🇮🇹 Scendiamo le scale per scendere al primo piano.

🗣️ shen-dyah-moh leh skah-leh pehr shen-deh-reh ahl pree-moh pah-nyoh

🇺🇸 Let's go down the stairs to go down to the first floor.

🇮🇹 Non c'è l'ascensore, dobbiamo prendere le scale.

🗣️ non cheh lah-shen-SOH-reh, dohb-BYAH-mo prend-EH-reh leh SKAH-leh.

🇺🇸 There is no elevator, we have to take the stairs.



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Italian

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Active vocabulary
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Difficulty
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Learning Italian offers enriched cultural experiences and economic opportunities in sectors like fashion, automotive, and food industries. Italy is a founding EU member with a diverse and rich heritage, making the language valuable for history, art, and culinary enthusiasts. For basic fluency, English speakers need about 1,500-2,000 vocabulary words and can expect to invest 600-750 hours for general proficiency. Italian grammar essentials include the use of articles ('il', 'la'), understanding gender (masculine, feminine), and mastering verb conjugations across various tenses like presente and passato prossimo. Though challenging, these grammatical intricacies enable precise, expressive communication in both professional and social settings.



Frequently Asked Questions

How to say "stairs" in Italian?

You can use the word "scale" which translates to "stairs".

How to pronounce "scale" (stairs) in Italian?

The word "scale" is pronounced as "skah-leh".

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