Il sindaco visita una scuola in città.

Il sindaco visita una scuola in città.
The mayor visits a school in the city.

Breakdown of Il sindaco visita una scuola in città.

in
in
la città
the city
la scuola
the school
visitare
to visit
il sindaco
the mayor
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Questions & Answers about Il sindaco visita una scuola in città.

What tense and person is visita?
Visita is the third person singular present indicative of the verb visitare (“to visit”). It literally means “he/she/it visits.”
Why do we have il before sindaco?
Il is the masculine singular definite article. We use it because sindaco (“mayor”) is a specific, masculine noun in the singular.
If I wanted to say “a mayor visits a school in town,” which article would I use with sindaco?
You’d use the masculine singular indefinite article uno before nouns that begin with s + consonant. So you’d say Uno sindaco visita una scuola in città (though contextually one often specifies which mayor).
Why is it una scuola?
Scuola ends in -a, so it’s a feminine noun. The correct feminine singular indefinite article is una.
Why do we say in città and not nella città or a città?

– In città is an idiomatic locution meaning “in town” or “in the city.”
– Nella città (in + la città) would mean “inside the city proper,” often contrasting with suburbs or countryside.
– You cannot say a città because a + common noun takes an article (→ alla città), but that form is unusual here.

Why is there an accent on città?
Città is a tronca word: the stress falls on the final -à. The grave accent marks this stress and also shows that the plural is unchanged (le città).
What is the direct object of this sentence?
Una scuola is the direct object of visita. It answers “what” the mayor visits.
How would I replace una scuola with a pronoun?

Replace it with the feminine singular direct‐object pronoun la and place it before the verb:
Il sindaco la visita in città.

Can I use the present continuous here (like English “is visiting”)?

Italian typically uses the simple present for ongoing actions. If you want to stress it’s happening right now, you can say:
Il sindaco sta visitando una scuola in città.
But visita alone is perfectly natural.

What’s the difference between visitare and fare visita a?

– Visitare + direct object works well for places (museums, scuole, città).
– Fare visita a + indirect object is more common when visiting people: fare visita a un amico.
You could technically say Il sindaco fa visita a una scuola, but it sounds more formal and less idiomatic for places.