La nuova dipendente si presenta con calma e saluta tutte le colleghe.

The new employee introduces herself calmly and greets all her colleagues.

Breakdown of La nuova dipendente si presenta con calma e saluta tutte le colleghe.

• con: with
• e: and
• la calma: the calm
• nuovo: new

Questions & Answers about La nuova dipendente si presenta con calma e saluta tutte le colleghe.

Why is there no subject pronoun like lei?

Italian often drops subject pronouns when the verb ending already makes the subject clear.

Here, si presenta and saluta are both third-person singular, and the subject is already stated as La nuova dipendente, so adding lei would usually be unnecessary.

So Italian prefers:

La nuova dipendente si presenta...

rather than:

La nuova dipendente lei si presenta...
which would sound redundant in normal speech.

What does dipendente mean, and how do we know it is feminine here?

Dipendente means employee.

It is one of those Italian nouns that often have the same singular form for masculine and feminine. So the noun itself does not change here. We know it is feminine because of the words around it:

• la = feminine singular article
• nuova = feminine singular adjective

So:

• il nuovo dipendente = the new male employee
• la nuova dipendente = the new female employee

Why is it nuova dipendente and not nuovo dipendente?