A2🔤 Letters B & C
Italian word
cassetto
drawer (in a piece of furniture)
Looks like
cassette
a small flat plastic case containing magnetic tape for audio or video
⚠️ The trap
Cassetto (drawer) and cassetta (cassette/small box) look nearly identical. A cassette tape is 'una cassetta'. A drawer is 'un cassetto'. One letter difference, very different objects.
To say "a small flat plastic case containing magnetic tape for audio or video" in Italian:
cassetta (cassette tape); cassetto (drawer)
"cassetto" in English means:
drawer (in a piece of furniture)
Example
"Ho messo i documenti nel cassetto della scrivania."
"I put the documents in the desk drawer."
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