| meno |
| 1. adv. less | |
| 2. adv. not; non- | |
| Se l'abbia scritto o meno rimarrà sempre un segreto. - Whether he wrote it or not will always remain a secret. | |
| legalità o meno - legality or non-legality | |
| 3. adv. (mathematics) minus | |
| 4. adv. (music) less | |
| 5. adj. less | |
| Ho meno tè di te. - I have less tea than you. | |
| Ho meno tè che caffé. - I have less tea than coffee. | |
| Ho dovuto aspettare meno di dieci minuti. - I had to wait less than ten minutes. | |
| 6. v. first-person singular present indicative of menare | |
| male |
| 1. adv. (comparative: peggio; superlative: malissimo) | |
| 2. adv. badly, wrongly | |
| 3. n. evil, harm | |
| 4. n. pain, ache, illness, sickness, disease | |
| 5. adj. feminine plural of malo | |
| meno male |
| 1. interj. thank goodness!; That's a good thing!; luckily! | |
| 2. interj. (followed by che) It's a good thing that..; It's a good job that..; It was lucky for me (or you, her, etc) that.. | |
| Meno male che hai finito! - it's a good thing that you finished! | |
| meno male che oggi non sono andato a lavorare perché c'è stata una bufera di neve nel pomeriggio! - it's a good thing that I didn't go to work today because there was a snowstorm this afternoon | |
| che |
| 1. pron. (interrogative) what | |
| 2. pron. (relative) who; whom; which; (ngd, nominative and accusative case) | |
| 3. conj. that | |
| 4. conj. than | |
| 5. conj. when | |
| 6. det. some (informal) A remarkable (some party - che festa - che bambola!) | |
| io |
| 1. pron. I, the first person | |
| non |
| 1. adv. not | |
| 2. adv. un- | |
| 3. adv. don't | |
| sono |
| 1. v. first-person singular present of essere; (I) [[am]], [[I'm]]. | |
| 2. v. third-person plural present of essere; (they) [[are]], [[they're]]. | |
| 3. n. alternative form of suono | |
| essere |
| 1. v. (intransitive, indicating existence, identity, location, or state) to be, to stay | |
| 2. v. (auxiliary, used to form composite past tense of many intransitive verbs) to have (done something); to | |
| 3. v. (impersonal, of a duration of time since an event) to have passed | |
| 4. n. being | |
| una |
| 1. adj. feminine singular of adjective uno | |
| 2. art. feminine singular of uno | |
| 3. pron. feminine singular of uno | |
| ladra |
| 1. adj. feminine singular of ladro | |
| 2. n. thief (female) | |
| 3. n. burglar (female) | |
| ladro |
| 1. n-m. thief, lift | |
| 2. n-m. burglar | |
| 3. adj. thieving, dishonest | |
