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My name is Desy, mi chiamo Desy, mi chiamo Desy and if you want to live in Italy, follow |
me because in this video I'm going to teach you how to rent an apartment in Italian. |
affittare un appartamento |
Affittare is the verb to rent, while rent is affitto, double F, affitto and double T. |
Appartamento is apartment, appartamento, while casa is used as home, house. |
Vorrei affittare un appartamento. |
I'd like to rent an apartment. |
Vorrei affittare un appartamento tramite agenzia. |
Or you can say, vorrei affittare un appartamento da privato, as a private individual. |
It should be easier through an agency because they're going to look for it for you and then |
show many options to you, but you have to pay them, of course. |
So the choice is up to you, otherwise you can check online or newspapers, you know. |
That being said, you can go to an agency and say, cerco una casa con minimo cinquanta |
metri quadri, cerco una casa, I'm looking for a house, cerco un appartamento, I'm looking |
for an apartment, con minimo, with minimum, cinquanta, fifty, metri quadri, square meter, |
cinquanta metri quadri, fifty square meter. |
In fact, metri quadri or quadrati, metri quadri, metri quadrati is square meter. |
Some more useful words could be contratto, contract, proprietario, owner, landlord, while |
you would be the tenant, right? |
Divido l'espese condominiali con il mio co-inquilino, divido, I share, l'espese condominiali, condo |
fees, con il mio, with my, co-inquilino, co-inquilino, co-inquilino, housemaid. |
And spese condominiali are the fees, the expenses that you have to pay in order to live in that |
apartment. |
It's the amount of all those costs that every tenant has to pay, right? |
So for example, cleaning the stairs or administrative costs and all of that, right? |
But you may want to ask that before as well, before you even see the house, quanto sono |
le spese condominiali? |
How much for the condo fees? |
Then let's move a bit on with our quest, we want to add some more criteria. |
So for example, you may be looking for a monolocale, a studio, monolocale, un monolocale |
è molto comodo per gli studenti, un monolocale, a studio flat, è molto comodo, it's really |
useful, really convenient, è molto comodo per gli studenti, for students, per gli studenti, |
un monolocale è molto comodo per gli studenti. |
If you're not a student or if you are but you want a bigger house, a bigger apartment, |
then you can look for a bilocale, bilocale or even a trilocale, trilocale, where of course |
B stands for two, so two-room apartment or 3 stands for tree, this is a tree, not a two. |
are called stanza, singular, stanze, plural or camera, camere if plural, stanza or camera |
are both used for room, for example, io e mio marito, me and my husband cerchiamo una |
casa, are looking for a house, cerchiamo una casa con almeno, con almeno, with at least |
due camere da letto, two bedrooms, due camere da letto, io e mio marito cerchiamo una casa |
con almeno due camere da letto, me and my husband are looking for a house with at least |
two bedrooms, almeno, at least. |
Now let's assume you found something interesting and you're going to see it, the first thing |
that you see when you open the door is the entrance, l'ingresso, ingresso, entrance, |
sometimes if it's narrow and long it's a corridoio, corridoio, hallway, corridoio, another |
essential thing is il bagno, the bathroom, il bagno è in fondo al corridoio, il bagno |
è in fondo al corridoio, the bathroom is at the end of the hallway, il bagno è al fondo |
del corridoio, as important as the bathroom there is the kitchen, la cucina, or cucinino, |
which is a small kitchen, kitchenette, il cucinino ha tutto quello che ti serve, the |
kitchenette has everything you need, il cucinino, the kitchenette has everything ha tutto quello |
che ti serve, everything that you need, then as we said before, camera da letto, bedroom, |
camera da letto, where letto is bed and camera is room, la camera da letto è molto luminosa, |
the bedroom is really bright, la camera da letto è molto luminosa, living room is salotto, |
non c'è il salotto, there is no living room, non c'è il salotto, ma puoi mettere |
il divano in cucina, but you can put the sofa in the kitchen, non c'è il salotto ma |
puoi mettere il divano in cucina. And that's about the rooms that compose the house. Some more, |
let's say, optionals that you can have are, for example, l'ascensore, the elevator, for |
example, non avere l'ascensore ha dei lati positivi, not having the elevator has some |
good points, some bright sides. Actually, I can just think about you having to take |
the stairs, so being more healthy, but yeah, non avere l'ascensore può avere dei lati |
positivi, bright sides, lati positivi. Then there is the garden, il giardino, garden, |
giardino, se hai un cane, if you have a dog, se hai un cane, il giardino è utile, |
the garden is useful, se hai un cane, il giardino è utile. And then let's say last but not |
least, il balcone, the balcony. In fact, io amo prendere il caffè sul |
balcone. Io amo prendere il caffè sul balcone. I love drinking coffee on the balcony. I |
love having coffee on the balcony. Il balcone, for me, it's the most important criteria actually |
when looking for a house, but that's just me. So I hope this video gave you some useful |
vocabulary to rent an apartment in Italy and please let me know in the comments which one |
is your favorite room. Quale è la tua stanza preferita? My favorite one is the balcony, |
as I said, even though it's not technically a room. Thank you for watching. Remember to |
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