"Posso pulire i pavimenti?"

[AncientBat]

British English: I'd say "may/can I clean the floor" even if it referred to several rooms. Floors plural means different stories in a building.

[mbisson]

Really. There's absolutely no difference between "Can I clean the floor," and "Can I clean the floors." (American English here, too.)

[urboydoms]

I'm also a Native english speaker from Canada, and I think it's also correct and sometimes more clear to say "I can clean the floors"

[Elena18]

The main thing is: this is one of the sexiest questions ever uttered by a man!

[mprdo]

Elena, it sounds like an act of contrition; the bugger is clearly guilty of some misdeed!! 29Jan16

[ziggKogg]

Just to be sure, after "posso" you use the infinitive form of the verb? So for example:
Posso mangiare, posso lavore etc?

*Disregard the question it has already been answered"

[Nitram.]

Correct. We use the infinitive form after the 3 modal verbs (in any verb tenses and modes): potere, dovere and volere. All of them are irregular. They are conjugated in Presente Indicativo like this: Potere -> posso, puoi, può, possiamo, potete, possono. Dovere -> devo, devi, deve, dobbiamo, dovete, devono. Volere -> voglio, vuoli, vuole, vogliamo, volete, vogliono. It's a shame that these important verbs aren't mentioned until now. They should have a long explanation.

[gullideckel]

Ehm where did you come up with "vuoli"? probably a typo. it should be "vuoi"

[ziggKogg]

Ok so potere, dovere and volere are the 3 verbs that are followed by an infinitive form. Thanks :)

[Nitram.]

It's important to mention that not only these verbs can be followed by an infinitive, but these must be followed by the infinitive.
Here is a good explanation about modal verbs: http://italian.about.com/od/verbs/a/italian-modal-verbs.htm

[ziggKogg]

Nice link, thanks! I vaguely remember something similar in Spanish.

[Ciaem]

Shouldn't the translation include floors and not just pavement or pave?

[jacqui94]

i didn't know what pavimenti meant, but when i hovered over the word pavement came up, not ground, so it wasn't possible to get this one right!

[mstone01501]

I had the multiple choice (with pictures) question first so I knew it meant floor. They should introduce new words like that first then use them in translations

[mangoHero1]

when i hovered over pavimenti I got floors

[ceceg]

Since the most likely intended translation had to do with cleaning household floors, not sidewalks on either side of the pond, the dictionary hints should have included floors.

[ronaldholden]

floors? not a common form of the word

[JuliusPera]

By all means