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spesa

shopping

noun SPEH-zah Common
Home & Lifestyle Household Items

Also means

expense, cost

Usage Note

Spesa most commonly means grocery shopping: fare la spesa = to go grocery shopping (not department-store shopping, which is fare shopping). In business and accounting contexts it means an expense or expenditure. The plural spese is used for costs: a mie spese = 'at my expense'.

Examples

"Devo fare la spesa prima di cena."

Natural Translation

I need to do the grocery shopping before dinner.

Literal Translation

I-must to-do the shopping before of dinner.

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