Scarico l’allegato dall’email.

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Breakdown of Scarico l’allegato dall’email.

• da: from
• l'email: the email
• scaricare: to download

Questions & Answers about Scarico l’allegato dall’email.

What tense and person is scarico in this sentence?

Scarico is the first-person singular present indicative of the verb scaricare, so it literally means “I download” or “I am downloading.”

What does the apostrophe in l’allegato indicate?

It marks elision: the vowel i from the article il is dropped before the vowel-initial noun allegato, so il allegato becomes l’allegato.

Why is the noun allegato preceded by a definite article? Can I say scarico allegato instead?

In Italian you normally use the definite article before concrete nouns like “attachment.” Saying scarico allegato without l’ sounds unnatural in a full sentence (you might only see it in terse UI labels).

Why is it dall’email and not dalla email or dal’email?

First da + la (the article for a feminine noun) contracts to dalla. Because email begins with a vowel, Italian often drops the final a of dalla to avoid a hiatus, marking the omission with an apostrophe:
dalla email → dall’email
Using dal’email would wrongly imply da + il.

Why is email feminine in Italian, and how do you form its plural?