L'ingegnere sale sulla gru con attenzione.

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Breakdown of L'ingegnere sale sulla gru con attenzione.

• salire: to climb
• con attenzione: carefully
• l'ingegnere: the engineer

Questions & Answers about L'ingegnere sale sulla gru con attenzione.

Why is it L’ingegnere and not Il ingegnere?

In Italian the masculine singular definite article lo becomes l’ before a vowel. Since ingegnere starts with a vowel, lo ingegnere elides to l’ingegnere.

What does sale mean here, and how is the verb salire used?

Sale is the third‐person singular present tense of salire, meaning “he/she climbs” or “goes up.” Full present tense: io salgo, tu sali, egli sale, noi saliamo, voi salite, essi salgono.

Why do we say sulla gru instead of su la gru?

Italian prepositions combine with definite articles. Su + la merges into sulla. So sale sulla gru literally means “he climbs onto the crane.”

Why is gru feminine and not masculine?

Many Italian nouns ending in -u (like gru) are feminine. You must learn the gender with each noun: la gru. There’s no simple rule here, so exposure and memorization help.

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