Meaning
pasta
- pastry, small cake
- dough
- paste
In a sentence
Stasera faccio la pasta con il pomodoro.
Tonight I'm making pasta with tomato sauce.
Mangio la pasta quasi ogni giorno.
I eat pasta almost every day.
La pasta è pronta tra cinque minuti.
The pasta will be ready in five minutes.
Word forms (2)
| Word | Word forms |
|---|---|
| pasta | feminine · singular |
| paste | feminine · plural |
Usage notes
- For the food, pasta is usually uncountable: mangio pasta. Use a plural only for types: paste ripiene, paste alimentari.
- Do not use pasta for English "paste" in every context; collocations vary: dentifricio is toothpaste, incolla is glue/paste.
- Impasto is usually better for bread or pizza dough; pasta often refers to rolled dough or pastry in cooking contexts.