La fattoria non è lontana dal villaggio.

Because Italian usually uses a definite article more often than English does. Here la fattoria means the farm.

In a sentence like this, leaving out the article would sound unnatural. Italian normally wants:

• la fattoria = the farm
• il villaggio = the village

So La fattoria non è lontana dal villaggio is the natural way to say it.

In Italian, the basic way to make a sentence negative is to put non directly before the verb.

So:

• è lontana = is far
• non è lontana = is not far

This is very standard and works with many verbs:

• parlo = I speak
• non parlo = I do not speak

È is the third-person singular of essere:

• è = is

The accent matters because e without an accent means and.

So:

• è = is
• e = and

That is why Italian writes non è lontana, not non e lontana.

Because lontana agrees with fattoria, which is a feminine singular noun.

Italian adjectives often change form to match the noun they describe:

• masculine singular: lontano
• feminine singular: lontana
• masculine plural: lontani
• feminine plural: lontane

Since fattoria is feminine singular, the correct form is lontana.

Yes. Lontana is an adjective, and here it is used after the verb essere.

The structure is:

• La fattoria = subject
• non è = is not
• lontana = far
• dal villaggio = from the village

So lontana is describing the farm. This is similar to English The farm is far.

Dal is a contraction of:

• da + il = dal

Here:

• da = from
• il villaggio = the village

So:

• dal villaggio = from the village

Italian often combines prepositions with definite articles:

• a + il = al
• da + il = dal
• di + il = del
• in + il = nel
• su + il = sul

Because dal already includes the article il.

The full form would be:

• da il villaggio

But Italian does not normally keep it separate. It contracts it:

• dal villaggio

So dal villaggio literally contains both from and the.

Because lontano/lontana normally takes da to mean far from.

So:

• lontano da Roma = far from Rome
• lontana dal villaggio = far from the village

This is just the standard preposition that goes with lontano. English speakers often have to learn these preposition patterns one by one.

A little, but the given order is the most neutral and natural.

Standard order:

• La fattoria non è lontana dal villaggio.

You might also hear something like:

• Dal villaggio, la fattoria non è lontana.

That version gives extra emphasis to dal villaggio. But for normal everyday usage, the original sentence is best.

One thing you generally should not do is place non somewhere else. It normally goes directly before the verb:

• non è ✔
• è non lontana ✘ in normal usage

You usually would not. Italian often leaves subject pronouns out when the subject is already clear.

Since la fattoria is explicitly stated, there is no need to add a pronoun.

So:

• La fattoria non è lontana dal villaggio. ✔ natural
• La fattoria essa non è lontana dal villaggio. ✘ unnatural

Italian uses pronouns mainly for emphasis, contrast, or when the subject is not otherwise clear.

A rough pronunciation is veel-LAHD-joh.

A few helpful points:

• vi sounds like vee
• the double ll is held a bit longer than a single l
• -aggio has a j sound like in jam
• the stress is on -lag-: vil-LAG-gio

And for the full sentence, a rough guide is:

La fattoria non è lontana dal villaggio
lah faht-toh-REE-ah non eh lon-TAH-nah dahl veel-LAHD-joh

Yes, you could say:

• La fattoria non è distante dal villaggio.

That is grammatical and understandable. However, lontano/lontana is often the more everyday, common choice for far. Distante can sound a bit more formal or descriptive depending on context.

So the original sentence is very natural.