Introduction to Italian/Lesson 3

Basic Vocabulary
There are a few very important words in Italian that you will definitely need to know. They are classified here by part of speech.

Pronouns
io - I tu - you lui/lei - he/she (lei can also be the formal version of tu) noi - we voi - you (collective; used for addressing multiple people directly) loro - they

In elementary schools when you start studying verb tenses, the third person singular and third person plural are translated with "egli" and "essi", which are personal pronouns too, the use is still quite common in written Italian but rarely in spoken Italian.

Simple prepositions
con - with in - in (don't forget to pronounce it differently even though it's spelled the same) su - on a - at, to di - of da - from per - for tra - within (used interchangeably with fra)

Conjunctions
e - and ma - but o/oppure - or