Il mio profilo è privato, quindi nessuno può vedere le foto.

In Italian, possessive adjectives usually go with a definite article, so my profile becomes il mio profilo.

• il = the
• mio = my
• profilo = profile

This is different from English, where you normally do not say the my profile.

A very common pattern in Italian is:

• il mio libro = my book
• la mia macchina = my car
• i miei amici = my friends

One important exception: with many singular family members, Italian often drops the article:

• mia madre = my mother
• mio fratello = my brother

But with profilo, you need the article, so il mio profilo is correct.

È is the verb essere (to be) in the third-person singular: is.

So:

• Il mio profilo è privato = My profile is private

The accent is important because it distinguishes è (is) from e (and).

Compare:

• è = is
• e = and

So if you wrote Il mio profilo e privato, it would be incorrect.

Because profilo is a masculine singular noun.

Italian adjectives must agree with the noun they describe in gender and number:

• profilo = masculine singular
• therefore: privato

Examples:

• il profilo privato = the private profile
• la pagina privata = the private page
• i profili privati = the private profiles
• le pagine private = the private pages

So privato matches profilo.

Here quindi means so, therefore, or thus.

The sentence is showing a result:

• Il mio profilo è privato = My profile is private
• quindi nessuno può vedere le foto = so nobody can see the photos

The comma helps separate the first idea from the result that follows. In English, this is similar to:

• My profile is private, so nobody can see the photos.

Italian punctuation can vary a bit depending on style, but the comma here is completely natural.

No. Nessuno means no one / nobody, and grammatically it is treated as singular.

So you say:

• nessuno può = nobody can

not:

• nessuno possono

This is similar to English, where we say:

• Nobody can see the photos

  not:

• Nobody can sees / can see with plural agreement

Other examples:

• Nessuno è arrivato. = No one arrived.
• Nessuno capisce. = Nobody understands.

Because when nessuno comes before the verb, it already makes the sentence negative by itself.

So:

• Nessuno può vedere le foto. = Nobody can see the photos.

You do not add non there.

But when nessuno comes after the verb, Italian normally uses non:

• Non vedo nessuno. = I don't see anyone.

So the rule is:

• nessuno + verb → no non
• non + verb + nessuno → needed when nessuno comes later

This is a very common pattern in Italian negatives.

This is a modal verb construction.

• può = can / is able to
• vedere = to see

Together:

• può vedere = can see

Italian often uses a conjugated modal verb plus an infinitive, just like English:

• posso parlare = I can speak
• vuole mangiare = he/she wants to eat
• devo studiare = I must study

Here:

• nessuno può vedere le foto = nobody can see the photos

Also note that può has an accent, which distinguishes it from puo (which is not the standard written form).

Both verbs can relate to sight, but they are not always interchangeable.

• vedere = to see
• guardare = to look at / to watch

In this sentence, the idea is about whether someone is able to see/access the photos, so vedere is the most natural choice.

Compare:

• Posso vedere le foto? = Can I see the photos?
• Guardo le foto. = I’m looking at the photos.

If the focus is on simply being visible or accessible, vedere is usually better.

Because the context already makes it clear which photos are meant: the photos on my profile.

So le foto here naturally means the photos associated with that profile. Italian often leaves out the possessive when it is obvious from context.

• Il mio profilo è privato, quindi nessuno può vedere le foto. = My profile is private, so nobody can see the photos.

You could also say:

• Il mio profilo è privato, quindi nessuno può vedere le mie foto.

That is also correct, but it puts a bit more emphasis on the fact that they are my photos. In many situations, le foto sounds smoother and more natural.

Yes. Foto is a shortened form of fotografia, but it is completely standard and extremely common in everyday Italian.

A few useful things to know:

• foto is very common in speech and writing
• it is generally treated as feminine because it comes from fotografia
• singular and plural are the same in form

So:

• la foto = the photo
• le foto = the photos

You do not change it to foti or anything like that.

Yes, Italian word order is fairly flexible.

You could say:

• Il mio profilo è privato, quindi nessuno può vedere le foto.

or, in a different context:

• Quindi nessuno può vedere le foto.

Starting with quindi is possible when it links back to something already said. But as a full sentence on its own, the original version is more complete and natural because it first states the reason and then the result.

So the original structure is very straightforward:

1. statement: Il mio profilo è privato
2. consequence: quindi nessuno può vedere le foto

It can mean either no one / nobody or anyone / anybody, depending on the structure.

In this sentence:

• Nessuno può vedere le foto = Nobody can see the photos

But after a negative verb, it can correspond to anyone in English:

• Non vedo nessuno. = I don't see anyone.

So nessuno is a word worth learning by pattern, not just by one fixed translation. The position in the sentence and the presence or absence of non matter a lot.