Word
Il tentativo finisce con l'atterraggio.
Meaning
The attempt ends with the landing.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Il tentativo finisce con l'atterraggio.
con
with
finire
to finish
l'atterraggio
the landing after a climb
il tentativo
the attempt
Questions & Answers about Il tentativo finisce con l'atterraggio.
Why is it il tentativo and not just tentativo?
In normal Italian, singular countable nouns usually need an article when they are the subject of a sentence.
So il tentativo is the natural way to say the attempt.
Leaving out the article would sound incomplete in ordinary prose, unless you were using a special style such as headlines, notes, or labels.
Italian uses articles more often than English, so learners often notice them appearing where English might omit them.
What form is finisce?
Finisce is the 3rd person singular present indicative of finire.
- finire = to finish, to end
- finisce = he/she/it finishes, ends
It matches il tentativo, which is singular.
So grammatically:
Depending on context, this present tense can describe:
- a general fact
- something happening now
- a past event told in the historical present
Why is con used here?