Learn Hardcore Italian: La notizia sciocca tutti.

Breakdown of La notizia sciocca tutti.

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Why is it la notizia and not just notizia?

In Italian, singular countable nouns often take an article where English might not.

A useful thing to remember is that Italian notizia is a countable noun, unlike English news, which is usually uncountable.

So:

Why does notizia use la? Is it feminine?

Yes. Notizia is a feminine singular noun, so it takes the feminine singular definite article la.

Many Italian nouns ending in -a are feminine, and notizia follows that pattern.

What part of speech is sciocca here?

Here, sciocca is a verb, specifically the third person singular present tense of scioccare.

So:

The subject is la notizia, which is singular, so the verb is singular too: