Il titolare esibisce la carta d'identità elettronica.

In this sentence, titolare means the holder or the owner of something, depending on context.

Here it most naturally means the card holder, that is, the person to whom the electronic identity card belongs.

A useful thing to know is that titolare can be used in different situations:

• titolare di un documento = holder of a document
• titolare di un conto = account holder
• titolare di un negozio = shop owner

So the exact English word depends on the situation.

Italian usually uses an article where English often does not.

So:

• Il titolare = the holder
• Un titolare = a holder

In a complete sentence, Italian generally sounds more natural with the article:

• Il titolare esibisce... = The holder shows/presents...

Leaving out the article would usually sound incomplete unless it were a heading, label, or note.

Esibisce is:

• present tense
• 3rd person singular
• from the verb esibire

So it means:

• he/she presents
• the holder presents
• in some contexts, shows or produces

Its basic pattern is:

• io esibisco
• tu esibisci
• lui/lei esibisce
• noi esibiamo
• voi esibite
• loro esibiscono

Because the subject is il titolare (singular), the verb is esibisce.

They are similar, but not always identical.

• mostrare = to show
• esibire = to present, to produce, to show formally

In official or administrative contexts, esibire is very common. It often suggests showing a document to an authority, clerk, or inspector.

So in this sentence, esibisce sounds more formal and bureaucratic than mostra.

For example:

• mostrare un disegno = to show a drawing
• esibire un documento = to present a document

Carta d'identità is the standard Italian expression for identity card.

Breakdown:

• carta = card, paper, document
• d'identità = of identity

So literally it is something like identity card.

The noun carta is feminine, so the article is la:

• la carta
• la carta d'identità

This whole expression is fixed and very common in Italian.

The apostrophe appears because di becomes d' before a vowel in this expression.

So:

• di identità → d'identità

This is called elision. Italian often drops the final vowel of a short word before another word beginning with a vowel.

You will see the same thing in:

• l'identità
• un'amica
• d'accordo

In this phrase, carta d'identità is the normal written form.

In Italian, adjectives usually come after the noun.

So:

• carta elettronica = electronic card
• carta d'identità elettronica = electronic identity card

This is the most normal order in Italian.

English often puts adjectives before nouns, but Italian usually puts them after:

• una macchina rossa = a red car
• un documento ufficiale = an official document

So elettronica after the noun is exactly what you would expect.

Because the adjective must agree with the noun it describes.

The main noun here is carta, which is:

• feminine
• singular

So the adjective must also be feminine singular:

• elettronica

Compare:

• il documento elettronico = the electronic document
• la carta elettronica = the electronic card
• i documenti elettronici = the electronic documents
• le carte elettroniche = the electronic cards

Even though identità is also feminine, the agreement is really with the head noun carta.

Grammatically, it describes carta d'identità as a whole, with agreement based on carta, the main noun.

So the phrase means:

• electronic identity card

It does not mean that the identity itself is electronic. The adjective applies to the document.

This is very common in Italian noun phrases: the adjective comes after the full expression but agrees with the main noun.

Yes, grammatically you could, and people would understand it.

But there is a style difference:

• esibisce sounds more formal, official, or administrative
• mostra sounds more general and everyday

So in a legal, bureaucratic, or instructional sentence, esibisce is often better.

Italian uses definite articles very frequently, often more than English does.

Here:

• Il titolare identifies the person acting as the subject
• la carta d'identità elettronica identifies the specific document being presented

In English, article use can sometimes be lighter depending on style, but in Italian these articles sound normal and expected.

Without them, the sentence would usually sound unnatural as a regular statement.

Yes, it sounds fairly formal and administrative.

Clues:

• titolare is more official than just saying la persona
• esibisce is more formal than mostra
• carta d'identità elettronica is the official name of the document

So this sentence sounds like something you might see:

• in instructions
• on a government website
• in legal or bureaucratic writing
• in a form or official notice

A simple pronunciation guide is:

• carta ≈ KAR-ta
• d'identità ≈ dee-den-tee-TA

A few useful notes:

• the d' joins directly to the next word
• the stress in identità is on the last syllable: -tà
• the written accent on identità shows that final stress

So you say it smoothly as one phrase:

• carta d'identità