italiano · A1 · vocabulary · 4 minutes
Daily routine
Sequence reflexive and ordinary verbs across a normal day.
Understand the choice
A routine is a timeline of reusable chunks. Keep reflexive mi with alzo, learn fare expressions as units, and let verb endings identify the same subject across coordinated actions.
Core rule: Reflexive pronouns precede the conjugated verb; Italian commonly omits repeated subject pronouns.
Notice it in context
Mi alzo alle sette, faccio colazione e poi vado al lavoro.
I get up at seven, have breakfast, and then go to work.
Mi alzo is reflexive; faccio and vado share the understood io; alle sette schedules the start.
Dopo il lavoro faccio la spesa e cucino.
After work I shop for groceries and cook.
Fare la spesa is fixed; cucino continues the same omitted subject.
La sera studio un’ora e poi dormo.
In the evening I study for an hour and then sleep.
Studio and dormo use first-person endings without io.
What to remember
- Fare colazione and fare la spesa are fixed everyday combinations.
- Farsi la doccia is reflexive; fare una doccia is also common.
Common trap: Do not add io before every verb; the ending already carries the subject.