Word
Questo esercizio è importantissimo.
Meaning
This exercise is extremely important.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Lesson
Breakdown of Questo esercizio è importantissimo.
essere
to be
questo
this
importantissimo
extremely important
l’esercizio
the exercise
Questions & Answers about Questo esercizio è importantissimo.
Why is there an accent on è?
Because it’s the third-person singular present form of the verb essere (to be), and the grave accent distinguishes it from the conjunction e (and).
What part of speech is questo in this sentence?
Questo is a demonstrative adjective (determiner) meaning this. It directly modifies the masculine singular noun esercizio.
Why don’t we use the definite article il before esercizio?
Because questo already functions as the determiner for esercizio; in Italian you can’t have both a demonstrative and a definite article together—questo on its own conveys both this and the.
Why is it questo and not quest’ (with an apostrophe) before esercizio?
In standard Italian, the full form questo is used as an adjective before a noun. The contracted form quest’ appears only in very colloquial speech or when questo replaces the noun entirely (as a pronoun).
How is importantissimo formed from importante?