"Mio padre ha una gioielleria."

Translation: My father has a jewelry store.

[laura65]

I would always say jeweller's, not jewellery store

[omigo]

Did exactly the same thing! It is definitely one of those words that just invites you to omit shop: "My father has a jeweller's (shop)". Reported this.

[mark.edwar]

Me too, exactly the same.

[paulboocock]

This is difficult to translate out of context as 'gioielleria' can mean both jewellery and a jeweller's (shop)

[Zzzzz...]

The article "una" is crucial here. "La gioielleria" behaves the same way "jewellery" does. It refers to jewellery in general. "A piece of jewellery" would be "un gioiello". Hence "una gioielleria", with the indefinite article, must always refer to a jeweller's (shop).

[eiriog]

In English, dad and father pretty much mean the same thing. I know dad would technically translate to papà, but couldn't padre mean dad as well?

[sonia7313]

Padre is more formal (father), whereas papà is informal (dad)

[stuart.hol2]

In the UK we would almost always refer to the actual shop as the jewellers, rather than the jeweller's shop. Once again it's like I'm being penslised for not being American! :(

[Montalbano]

I don't remember being introduced to the word "gioielleria" as jewelry store

[MLemmi]

still a better pickup line than any in the "flirting" lesson

[robnich]

It is remarkable to have a word containing four consecutive vowels, and almost as remarkable to be able to pronounce it.

[LittleMagus]

Would "il mio padre" be ok as well?

[dnovinc]

No. This will tell you why: http://italian.about.com/library/fare/blfare124a.htm :)

[sofocle]

Se una "gioielleria" non è in una tasca o in una borsetta, essa è senz'altro in un negozio. Ergo, se mio padre ha una gioielleria, egli ha un negozio di gioielli. I think so.

[Micah115427]

What happened to the lion?