You can buy
many familiar brands of petfood in Italy from the supermarket although the
brand name pronunciation may be different. Whiskas is weezkass for
example! You’ll also find some rather oddly named pet products like Alan the
dog food (my husband loved that!) or Clumpy the cat litter (bit too graphic
thanks!)
Some words
are ‘false friends’ that is you think they will be the same in Italian and
English, but they aren’t. Examples of this are ‘organic’, which isn’t ‘organico’
but ‘biologico’ and ‘preservatives’ which is ‘conservanti’. ‘Preservativi’
are condoms so be careful what you ask for!
Here are
some of the most common food and foodstuff words with stress and pronunciation
in brackets. You can ask for an item by saying Vorrei (vor-RAY), Volevo (vo-LAY-voh)
or mi serve (mi SER-veh) For example: vorrei una ciotola per il mio gatto.
(I would like a bowl for my cat.)
Food in
general for animals is mangime (man-JEE-meh) and you won’t go far wrong
using that although you do also see cibo (CHEE-boh) and alimento
(al-ee-MEN-toh).
Biscuits – biscotti
(bis-COTT-ee)
Bones – ossi
(OH-see)
Bowl – ciotola
(chee-OH-to-lah)
Chews
(rawhide) – ossi in pelle di buffalo(OH-see
in PEH-leh dee – BOO-fah-loh)
Chicken – pollo
(POLL-oh)
Complete
food – alimento completo (al-ee-MEN-toh
kom-PLET-oh)
Daily
amount- razione giornaliera (rah-zee-OH-neh jee-or-nah-lee-ER-oh)
Duck – anatra
( AN-ah-trah)
Hypo-allergenic/sensitive
– sensibile (sen-SEE-bil-eh)
Kibble – croccanti
(kroh-KAN-tee)
Meal – pasto
( PAH-stoh)
Meat – carne
(KAR-neh)
Minerals – minerali
(min-eh-RAH-lee)
Natural ingredients – ingredienti naturali
(in-GRED-ee-en-tee Nah-too-RAH-lee)
No colourings – senza coloranti (SENZ-ah ko-lo-RAN-tee)
No preservatives – senza conservanti (SENZ-ah kon-ser-VAN-tee)
Organic – biologico/a
(bee-oh-LODGE-ee-koh/kah)
Per day – al giorno (al – JEE-orno)
Sack- sacco
(SAH-koh)
Sachet – busta
(BOOS-tah)
Snack/treat
– piccolo spuntino (PICK-oh-loh spun-TEE-noh) ricompensa
(ree-kom-PEN-sah)
Tasty – gustoso/a
(goos-TOE-zoh/zah)
Tin – lattina
(lah-TEEN-ah)
Venison – cervo
(CHER-voh)
Vitamins – vitamine
(vit-ah-MEE-neh)
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