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Forte / Che Forza

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Cool

(Litterally “strong / strength”
Usually used after something someone says.)

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Figo / Fico
Figa / Fica

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Cool, Awesome, Hot

It denotes a person or thing that is considered attractive, interesting, fashionable or popular.

The female form is finge when talking about objects or guys, but one should take care when using it to talk about women. This is because, in addition to meaningcoolorgood-looking, it is also a vulgar slang term for a woman’s private parts.

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Che figata!

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How cool! / That’s so cool!

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Roba forte

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Cool Stuff, Cool thing

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Mitico

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Mythical, Mind-blowing

But is usually used like “cool” in english.

In fact, men often use it to greet one another as a term of endearment.

Ciao mitico! Come stai?
Lit: Hey, cool guy! How are you?

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Bello!

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Handsome

But it can also be used as “cool” if used as an exclamation.

Very versitile word.

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Fantastico

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Fantastic, Awesome

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Spacca / Spaccano

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Rock, are cool/awesome/great

For example:

Questo gruppo spacca!
This group rocks!

Questi gruppi spaccano!
These groups rock!

Spaccaandspaccanoare the third person singular and plural forms of the verbspaccare(literally “to break” but also “to blow up”).

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Troppo

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Too (much/little/cool++)

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