Il vicinato sembra tranquillo, e a Sara piace già molto.

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Breakdown of Il vicinato sembra tranquillo, e a Sara piace già molto.

• piacere: to like
• tranquillo: quiet
• molto: a lot

Questions & Answers about Il vicinato sembra tranquillo, e a Sara piace già molto.

Why is it il vicinato and not just vicinato?

In Italian, nouns are usually used with an article more often than in English. So il vicinato is the normal way to say the neighborhood or the surrounding area / neighbors as a group, depending on context.

Saying just vicinato is possible in some special cases, but here il vicinato is the natural standard form.

What exactly does vicinato mean here?

Here, vicinato means something like the neighborhood or the local area around the home.

It can sometimes also refer to the neighbors collectively, but in this sentence, because of sembra tranquillo, it most naturally means the area itself: the neighborhood seems quiet.

Why is it sembra tranquillo?

Because sembrare means to seem, and it is followed by an adjective describing the subject.

Here:

• il vicinato = the subject
• sembra = seems
• tranquillo = quiet / peaceful / calm

So the structure is:

subject + sembrare + adjective

Since vicinato is masculine singular, the adjective is tranquillo.

Why is it tranquillo and not tranquilla?