L'anagrafe acquisisce la fototessera.

Because Italian usually drops the final vowel of la before a word that begins with a vowel. This is called elision.

So:

• la anagrafe → l'anagrafe

The apostrophe shows that the a of la has been omitted.

It is feminine singular, which is why the article is la, becoming l' before the vowel:

• la anagrafe
• l'anagrafe

This is useful because nouns ending in -e can be either masculine or feminine in Italian, so you cannot always guess the gender just from the ending.

In everyday Italian, anagrafe usually refers to the registry office or civil records office of a municipality, especially the office that handles residents' personal data.

So in administrative language, l'anagrafe often means:

• the office itself
• the registry service
• sometimes, by extension, the staff or administration handling the records

It is a very common bureaucratic word in Italy.

Acquisisce is:

• present indicative
• third person singular
• from the verb acquisire

So it corresponds to:

• he/she/it acquires
• the office acquires

In this sentence, the subject is l'anagrafe, so the verb is in the third person singular.

Because acquisire belongs to a group of -ire verbs that insert -isc- in some present-tense forms.

For acquisire, the present tense is:

• io acquisisco
• tu acquisisci
• lui/lei acquisisce
• noi acquisiamo
• voi acquisite
• loro acquisiscono

So the -isc- appears in:

• io
• tu
• lui/lei
• loro

but not in:

• noi
• voi

This pattern is very common with verbs like capire, preferire, finire, and spedire.

Not necessarily in the broad English sense. In administrative or bureaucratic Italian, acquisire often means something like:

• to receive
• to collect
• to take in
• to obtain for the file
• to register as part of a procedure

So even if the basic dictionary meaning is to acquire, in this kind of sentence it often has an official, procedural nuance.

Because fototessera is a feminine singular noun, so it takes la.

The sentence uses the definite article because it refers to a specific photo required in the procedure, not just any random photo.

So:

• la fototessera = the ID photo / the passport-style photo

A fototessera is a small official identity photo, such as the kind used for:

• ID cards
• passports
• permits
• applications

A natural English explanation is often passport photo or ID photo, depending on context.

Yes, fototessera is commonly written as one word. It is a compound noun.

In real life, you may also sometimes see foto tessera written as two words, especially in signs or informal usage, but fototessera as one word is perfectly standard.

Because la fototessera is the direct object of the verb acquisisce.

The structure is simply:

• subject: L'anagrafe
• verb: acquisisce
• direct object: la fototessera

Italian does not need a preposition here, just as English does not in a sentence like The office receives the photo.

Yes. This is the most neutral and standard order in Italian:

• Subject + Verb + Object
• L'anagrafe acquisisce la fototessera

Italian word order can sometimes be changed for emphasis, but this sentence uses the basic unmarked order, which is what learners should expect most often in straightforward statements.

Yes, but the meaning would change slightly.

• la fototessera = a specific photo, the one required or already known in context
• una fototessera = an ID photo, one such photo, not specifically identified

In bureaucratic instructions, the definite article is very common when the item is understood as part of the procedure.