"Posso pulire i pavimenti?"
Translation:Can I clean the floors?
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Also US English: "May I" requests permission ("May I help you?") while "Can I" refers to physical capability ("Can you reach that?").
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Just to be sure, after "posso" you use the infinitive form of the verb? So for example: Posso mangiare, posso lavore etc?
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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.
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Ok so potere, dovere and volere are the 3 verbs that are followed by an infinitive form. Thanks :)
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