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What does “ben ritrovato” mean in Italian?

Benvenuto welcomes someone who has just arrived. Ben ritrovato welcomes someone back — you use it with a person you already know and haven’t seen in a while, and it is the traditional reply to benvenuto. It agrees like an adjective, so a woman hears ben ritrovata and a group hears ben ritrovati, which is why podcast hosts stack all the forms in one breath.

This episode opens exactly that way — “Ciao, ben ritrovato, ben ritrovata qui sul podcast” — because the host is greeting listeners who were already there last week. Nearby you’ll meet ben arrivato (to someone who has just got there) and bentornato (“welcome back”, for someone home from a trip). Written solid, bentrovato, is equally correct; the two-word spelling is just more common in speech-like writing.